At last, Apple joins the war against fake AI images

Reality is crumbling at the hands of generative AI users, to the point where most people don’t trust what they see online anymore. Apple has come up with a technology to fix that: Apple Reference Image. It comes with the new iPhone 18 Pro models, and when enabled, it lets the camera’s new sensor cryptographically sign “every pixel it sees” when you take a photo, according to Apple. When you shoot in the new Reference mode, the iPhone’s camera sensor cryptogra...