I don't know if I'm reading this correctly. If this applies to images, and if these watermarks are something like a comment stored in the file's metadata, would

I don't know if I'm reading this correctly. If this applies to images, and if these watermarks are something like a comment stored in the file's metadata, wouldn't this effectively make it illegal to make a thumbnail of an image? Or to screenshot an image? Or convert it to a .bmp? > The bill also directs NIST to develop cybersecurity measures to prevent tampering with provenance and watermarking on AI content. So somehow NIST would have to develop a cybersecurity measure to stop me from making an AI generated image and just screenshotting it, discarding any metadata. I'm not sure how realistic this is. If the watermark were embedded into the actual pixels of the image then of course it'd be preserved by a screenshot, but my understanding is that those watermarks are not very robust to the image being resized, compressed or cropped At the end of the day you can also just take a picture of an AI-generated image on your screen using a camera (bonus points if you're in a future where cameras embed digital signatures to verify the image is authentic and not AI generated)