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Seems impractical and likely to cause a different set of problems.
If something like this is added to Stable Diffusion for instance, the OpenSource community will quickly create forks and tools to remove it.
Also seems likely that the Stable Diffusion crowd will create tools to ADD this watermark to images that are otherwise real... thus calling the authenticity of any image into question.
Having possession of an original without the watermark would be pretty easy proof that it’s been altered after the fact.
Not if they have a way to strip watermarks too, as has happened with every other system like this
Why is the focus only on identifying AI generated photos? Why not force a tag on all AI generated content period? That would help with a lot of applications.
Ah, yes, the evil bit will solve all our problems.
That was my first thought too. Wasn't there like a checklist for "Why this spam detection scheme will fail" that was floating around since the late 1990s?
You're thinking of this: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt Maybe someone should make an AI-detector version of that.
It's pretty easy to just not put the AI tag on things, or to strip such things away from an image.
That is simply not enforceable
Because you can setup a AI generator at home and nobody is coming to your house to make sure you watermark your "artwork"
The solution is ... Embed a watermark when the image is generated? How will that help stop deliberate disinformation created with other tools
Oh, they’ll totally sell the ability to generate without the watermark. Because of course, corporations have never been responsible for spreading disinformation.
I guess they could call it out better, even automatically, but someone further up is suggesting the real goal is to stop AI photos from appearing in future AI training sets, which would be counterproductive.