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Re:OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images wi... by space_fountain on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @08:01PM (#48201320)
This isn't DRM right? This is metadata attached to the image that makes it clear it was synthetically generated. The public has a huge incentive to know when images are AI generated and the harm to legitimate users seems pretty small: aka someone might complain online that you use AI
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Re:OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images wi... by WhatIsDukkha on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @08:04PM (#48201340)
billions? of "fake" images not generated by ai but just photoshopped and ... not really harmful.

There is no case that any of its particularly harmful outside of things like CSAM which is illegal.

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Re:OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images wi... by hhh on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @01:44AM (#48203537)
Have you looked at twitter or Facebook and seen the swaths of our population that are just fully believing fake AI slop about politics, crime, etc?
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Re:OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images wi... by the_other on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:53AM (#48204495)
Most of those people wont be checking the provenance of the images. FB have stopped from their fact-checking processes.

Only the investigative or journalistically inclined will make use of this, and those people already fact check.

Where’s the en mass gain?

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Re:OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images wi... by spuz on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @05:57AM (#48205359)
There's a world where all the big platforms automatically flag AI images thanks to SnythID and other techniques. The more ubiquitous it is the easier it will be for them to make that a reality.
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Re:OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images wi... by raron on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @09:25PM (#48201902)
Not yet, but it is easy to imagine many ways it would be used for DRM.
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Re:OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images wi... by throawayonthe on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @05:23AM (#48205124)
is it though?
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