FYI this is something you can even do with printer dots

> nothing prevents me from modifying the code and removing the part that adds those watermarks.

These regulations are aimed at major institutions like banks. Those rely on government-provided privilidges and protectuons to exist. In return we expect they follow some rules.

Nobody cares about AI running in your garage.

Again, nothing like this is aimed to prevent 100% of anything.

The tracking dots stop a huge portion of the low hanging fruit, identity thefts, fake money scams etc. Of course they do nothing to people who know how to hack the printer driver and/or firmware to remove tracking, but they aren't the ones being targeted.

Having trackable data in the biggest AI-generators would again stop a metric fuckton of casually made revenge porn and fake news. It won't stop actual professionals from training their own GPT-3 to do the same thing.