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For those wondering why some artists were actually pro-NFT? Because of this concept. Tie the art to the artist with an online database to look it up.
But also: This is worthless. Because the credentials are tied to the image themselves. So either remove the metadata (which I would expect for privacy reasons) or run it through a very simple filter/quality downgrade to garble up the hidden pixels.
The ACTUAL solution to this is indeed the online database. But the artist registers the image to themselves and then google images or whatever does image recognition (similar to how you can get DMCA striked for singing a few words of a song) to match it to the database. Lower the quality and it still matches. And if they find your rendition of Kim Possible's feet in an AI image, it can potentially give you some of the revenue from that.
But that wouldn't require new proprietary hardware.
Why not go with some kind of certificate chain instead?
Here’s the image… signed… here’s who signed it.
Is it for edit/changes?
Here’s an image that was edited based on an earlier image. Here’s who signed that.. and it’s base images hash which can then be looked up if they decided to see what those images were?
Well, that's exactly what a Blockchain is. Just in public and not part of the image itself.
This is nothing like a block chain. Blockchains are distributed and assume 0 trust in any actor. This is just a database that you have to have full trust in. Literally the opposite.