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There is actually a technique called steganography, that does exactly that. It is used to hide arbitrary binary info inside images, while still fooling your eyes into thinking there is nothing sketchy there.
Can't it be detected? I imagine ML could be used to automate to some extent.
I know! Nothing about all this is new.
The only new thing is that the UK government is about to learn about those things.