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jp7189 Its a fine thing to make AI images easily identifiable as such. Most image generation apps do this and in a way that survives most post gen manipulation. Stable Diffusion has a cool article about how it works… it's a surprisingly complicated process. That said, I'm not a fan of sending local data off box for unknown purposes. Reply
John musbach Admin said: A developer has uncovered some previously unknown GUID watermarking functionality deep within Microsoft’s Paint and Photos apps. Microsoft Paint and Photos apps add invisible watermark to AI-generated content — developer reverse engineers GUID embedding : Read more It's far from the first time images have had hidden modifications. Anyone remember warez sites using images with embedded zips https://github.com/90th/zipper? Reply
Corgano I'm a bit mixed on this. Having some robust way to say "yes this image is ai generated" is genuinely good. Honestly it should probably be a legal requirement at this point as long as it doesn't contain unique user identifiable information. I don't even mind them sending off the prompts for moderation – fine whatever. I just wish they were more transparent about doing it . Reply
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