Entering photos as evidence in a legal proceeding is currently bizarrely complex. You actually have to admit an expert witness to testify that the software used to process a photograph will not introduce artifacts. Even if you are simply zooming in or cropping an image.

An everyday scenario is Real estate photography and Facebook marketplace where people are having a field day AI faking photos.

Having a tick showing the photo is verified real would add a lot of trust to online platforms.

There’s been a few, but it’s becoming so common people have stopped noticing, but here’s a few recent ones:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce9yydgmzdvt?post=asset%3Aae...

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260417-press-assoc...

There’s now even a wiki article on the usage of AI generated images in American politics, mostly dealing with the obvious slop that Trump has produced, rather than insidious edits of real images

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-generated_content_in_Americ...