nonconsensual nudes are not collectible items that need to have their authenticity proven
of course not, but that’s not what this comment thread is about. It’s about this:
Ironically, in a sense we will revert back to the era before photography existed. To verify if something is real, we might have to rely on witness testimony.
that’s where it can be very useful to store a fingerprint of a file in a trusted database, regardless of where that database gets its trust from