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Re:Watermark Anything by mintplant on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @02:02PM (#42128858)
My assumption is that this will be used to watermark images coming out of cloud-based generative AI.
Re:Watermark Anything by jsheard on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @02:49PM (#42129238)
And they'll say it's to combat disinformation, but it'll actually be to help themselves filter AI generated content out of new AI training datasets so their models don't get Habsburg'd.
Re:Watermark Anything by Y_Y on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @04:13PM (#42130046)
> their models don't get Habsburg'd.

You mean develop a magnificent jawline, or continue to influence Austrian politics?

Re:Watermark Anything by selimthegrim on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @07:27PM (#42131793)
I was reading an article lately about how a lot of that was really just immensely dumb luck on their inbreeding part - that is, they ended up picking just exactly the worst sort
Re:Watermark Anything by glenneroo on Thursday November 14, 2024 @10:37AM (#42137237)
How do they still influence Austrian politics? Do you have any links or sources? I'm genuinely curious!
Re:Watermark Anything by muppetman on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @02:52PM (#42129265)
I wondered why they'd be doing this NOW and this makes perfect sense!!
Re:Watermark Anything by leemailll on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @09:33PM (#42132565)
>so their models don't get Habsburg'd.

Nice metaphor

Re:Watermark Anything by Animats on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:28PM (#42129622)
Why? Those are not copyrightable.
Re:Watermark Anything by xd1936 on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @03:32PM (#42129664)
Because downstream consumers of the media might want to know if an image has been created or manipulated by AI tools.
Re:Watermark Anything by Jerrrrrrry on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @04:27PM (#42130178)
hardware self-evident modules to essentially sign/color all digital files

now we need more noise

Re:Watermark Anything by poincaredisk on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @06:25PM (#42131353)
This still leaves out non cooperating image generators, and the real bad guys (organised disinformation grups) will use them.
Re:Watermark Anything by Moru on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @05:46PM (#42131054)
They would not want to train their next model on the output of the previous one...
Re:Watermark Anything by pbhjpbhj on Thursday November 14, 2024 @01:00PM (#42139060)
Who says?