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If you authenticate the video comes from a credible unrelated source, that would be different than if it came from a mysterious unknown source. Additionally if you have the chain of trust, you can interrogate every step manually for credibility and consistency.

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Which is somewhat helpful, but also just pushes the validation work off onto large entities of some kind.

Yes, of course.

The value of it is that the legwork only has to be done once, instead of requiring everyone to independently do it (which would basically turn every accusation of crime into a DDoS against the accused).

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