A Study on Broker-Assisted Blockchain Trust Chains for Provenance and Integrity Verification of Generative Media Using Watermarking, Semantic Fingerprinting, and C2PA

The widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence has increased the volume of images and videos shared online, while making it difficult to verify origin and integrity after routine post-processing such as re-encoding, resizing, and transcoding. This research proposes a broker-ass…