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- miohtamaRelated to this, the EU AI Act requires mandatory watermarking that is cannot be removed or is illegal to remove.https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-icons-l...If Facebook already embeds user IDs in images (AI or no AI) I can only drool to think what kind tracking, advertising and mass surveillance opportunities are coming.
- itakeA watermark is not just “transparency.” It can reveal what tool someone used, how they work, or that an image came from a stigmatized platform. In sensitive contexts—politics, sexuality, medical issues, protest material, or private expression—that can become surveillance.I am working on Saigon Watermarks: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/saigon-watermark/id6777061197 for detecting and removing provenence markers in AI.The tool also removes c2pa markers, which google is now linking the device that took the photo with the photo.scary stuff.https://security.googleblog.com/2025/09/pixel-android-truste...
- richardfeyThis is a great statistical analysis and it was a pleasure to read, but I wasn't expecting the claims to be so poorly supported. There's also a reply from one of the Meta authors there, worth checking out.
- flaxxeralso, easily bypassed now: https://twotensors.ai/