Some of our latest articles on visual tech:

• Introducing Content ARC: A Framework for Content Trust in the AI Era

  
  

  The Trust Problem We Face There was a time when a photograph could be trusted to speak for itself. Today, that trust is fractured. The rise of generative AI, synthetic media, and seamless visual manipulation has obliterated the once-solid foundations of visual truth. In response, the industry has rushed to

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• Bergen Media Provenance Summit: Where the Battle for Reality Gets Real

  
  

  The industry finally stopped theorizing and started building the infrastructure to preserve truth itself We’ve reached the inflection point. Not the one we’ll read about in retrospect, but the one happening right now—where the exponential flood of AI-generated content threatens to drown out any meaningful signal of authenticity. The World

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• The uncomfortable relationship between words and images

  
  

  The evolution from cave paintings to written text took millennia. The return journey might just be around the corner Human communication began with images. Long before the first written word, our ancestors painted scenes on cave walls, not as decoration, but as visual communication systems that conveyed complex ideas about

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• The Coming Great Digital Divide

  
  

   As the internet evolves into an AI agent repository database, filled with text, images, videos, and sounds specifically built to be used and consumed by AI systems, we can envision a segregated internet area solely reserved for real human beings, where access is predicated on proving one’s humanity through increasingly

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• Deepfakes as a trigger of a new economy

  
  

  You used to prove your identity with a password. Now you need to prove you’re not synthetic. The alarm bells started ringing in Hong Kong when an employee transferred $25 million to fraudsters during what appeared to be a routine video conference with colleagues and the CFO. The twist? Everyone

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• Introducing the Authenticity & Content Provenance Maturity Model

  
  

  When Content Trust Becomes a Strategic Asset There was a time when an image’s value was judged by its beauty, originality, or timeliness. Today, a growing portion of its value rests on something far more fundamental: whether we can believe it. From AI‑generated product shots slipping into online catalogs, to

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• August 2, 2025: The end of the AI wild west ?

  
  

  As the EU AI Act’s obligations for general-purpose AI models take effect, the age of opaque training data and untraceable outputs is drawing to a close. The Shifting Sands of AI Regulation The era of unregulated AI development is coming to an end, at least in Europe. As generative AI

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• The Fashion Fiction We’re Willing to Buy

  
  

  When MANGO launched its first fully AI-generated ad campaign last year, it made headlines: one of the first major fashion brands to swap models and sets for pixels and prompts. But now it’s gone a step further. This time, it’s not just campaign visuals or aspirational lookbooks. MANGO has begun

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• The Line We Haven’t Drawn: What Makes an Image AI-Generated?

  
  

                   As generative AI continues to infiltrate everything from smartphone cameras to image editors, one deceptively simple question remains unresolved and increasingly urgent: How much AI involvement is enough to call something AI-generated? It is not just a technical question or a legal

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• The Hidden Economy Behind AI: Data Licensing Takes Center Stage

  
  

  For years, we’ve been told that data is the new oil, and in the world of artificial intelligence, that metaphor feels almost understated. Every major AI breakthrough, from large language models to image synthesis engines, rests on vast amounts of labeled, real-world data. But unlike oil, data isn’t something you

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• Eric’s passion

  
  

  There are, perhaps, three stages in one’s relationship with photography: ignorance, interest, and enthusiasm. Eric Colmet Daage lived in a fourth, an unrestrained passion. And unlike most of us, whose love for images tends to orbit one genre, Eric’s passion embraced them all: photojournalism, sports, fashion, fine art, historical archives, and documentary. If a photograph … Read More →

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• Photography’s Many Birthdays

  
  

  Photography is unusual among technologies: it has no single birthday. Was it 1727, when Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered light-sensitive salts? 1826, when Nicéphore Niépce fixed his “View from the Window”? 1839, when Daguerre unveiled the daguerreotype? Or 1841, when Talbot introduced the negative-positive calotype? Each date is valid. Each is incomplete. That ambiguity is telling. … Read More →

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