
merybenavente.me
September 10, 2026
3 min read
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Summary
Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography Apple introduced yesterday Apple Reference Image: a way to cryptographically prove a photo was actually taken by a camera, instead of AI generated. During my time at the Recurse Center this summer, Alex Hornstein and I (two camera lovers) built a camera with proof of capture. Prove what’s real at capture time Back in 2019 I was deployi...