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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It also doesn't materialize ponies out of nothing. It can't do everything, but surely you can see that there are a lot of situations where being able to say with confidence that "this picture existed in exactly this form at exactly this date" is a super useful thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't prove when it was created, only that it existed. Previous poster /u/lolcatnip is talking about creation date

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

And that's all I'm saying that it does.

As I said, it's not perfection for every possible application. But it is still highly useful in many applications.