alt Hacker NewsThese systems should be removed.
This is antithetical to freedom and privacy.
There should be no way for anyone to track down who posted a political meme, anti-religious message, or any other legally protected speech. This will come back to bite us in the ass if we keep building it.
Soon every image or communication we make will be watermarked if we continue to let this shit seep into the commons. Everything from your phone photos, to your screenshots, to your social media posts.
One day soon Republicans or Democrats or whoever doesn't like your freedoms will use this tech to identify you and control you.
There are laws for harms - CSAM, revenge porn, etc. Social media platforms can identify, ban, and report abusers. The framework of the law can take care of the rest.
Our digital footprint should not be tracked and barcoded.
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Any privacy-respecting way for these big labs to keep selling their generators while minimizing e.g. political deepfake harms?
> Social media platforms can identify, ban, and report abusers.
& do but Americans nonetheless argue with troll farms[1] every day & it hurts us
[1] 2013-2023, just one known company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
> There are laws for harms
These laws need a method to know what is true and what is fake. Good luck with that if you can’t tell if neither images, audio or video are true.
This fakes will pave the way for fascists.
How much freedom and privacy will they allow?
That's a lot of hyperbole, there's no cause/effect relationship I can think of here that could realistically produce your slippery slope.
Google or anyone else could start adding those unique tracking watermarks you're concerned about any time they want, regardless of whether they use this AI detection watermark, that to be clear can not track you in any way.
If the watermark is anonymous with respect to the person who created it, I do not see a threat to privacy.