> This makes it like, a thousand times harder to fake a photo than it would otherwise be.

The problem with this thinking is twofold:

1) Whether it actually meaningfully increases the difficulty of a forgery remains to be seen. Despite their initial language about discerning real events, we see no details here about what scene information is used.

2) It increases the potential value of a forgery because now your forgery is attested by Apple.

So it either makes it easier to defraud people or more worthwhile to put in the effort to defraud people or both. None of those outcomes are great.

You worry that a technology that you have never used nor evaluated might not work in practice...

Therefore because of your worry (which is based on remarkably little information), it's a bad technology?

Come the fuck on. That's beyond luddite bullshit.