Image as Law: The Multimodal Trust Shift

October 31, 2025 𓇼 ⟐ 🜔 Multimodal Search · Trust Layer · Agent-SEO

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Getty×Perplexity and Google AI-Mode mark a semiotic mutation: images transform from decoration to juridical symbols carrying legal provenance and trust metadata.

The Strategic Gap: No standard exists for how agents declare, rank, and trust images across the open web.

Layer 3 Opportunity: Trust infrastructure is unclaimed and orthogonal to Layer 0/1 competition.

Compression: 111.82× (48,981 → 438 bytes) | Trust: 94.7% preservation

First-Mover Window: 0-3 months critical period

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