Hey, author here. Thanks for your comment. You're right that communities that prioritize full and total reproducibility wouldn't be an ideal "target drop locati

Hey, author here. Thanks for your comment. You're right that communities that prioritize full and total reproducibility wouldn't be an ideal "target drop location" for such a system. But, we'd argue that there are a lot of places that don't do so (in the name of getting "the best image possible") so we'd want to focus any deployment efforts there. And we totally agree with your last point -- in our paper, we have a section devoted to what we need for better steganography to be possible through diffusion models. I don't necessarily think there's a tradeoff between reproducibility and steganography, though, depending on how future models can be designed. I think what you're proposing -- an image that's reproducible via traditional means without compromising the security of the underlying scheme -- would be an interesting direction for future work. Also, if anyone else has questions I'd be happy to answer them!