> Watermarking is useless in a world where (F)OSS or unregulated LLMs are as good as regulated ones. But wouldn't watermarking work for identifying and maintai

> Watermarking is useless in a world where (F)OSS or unregulated LLMs are as good as regulated ones. But wouldn't watermarking work for identifying and maintaining the integrity with respect to the source of images and videos? Note, though, that you can't watermark plain ASCII. > Cryptography could prove that media was captured by a certain person at a certain time, but the general public doesn't have the time to decide whom to trust. I agree; trust is the real issue.