Regulation makes this worse. Imagine if every gen-AI media was required to have some signature. The bad actors won't use this signature. Or worse, they will add

Regulation makes this worse. Imagine if every gen-AI media was required to have some signature. The bad actors won't use this signature. Or worse, they will add the signature to real media to cast doubt. Or both at the same time. Also, how much gen AI is enough to require a watermark? If I generativley fill the part of my photo that I blurred with my thumb, should the entire photo be watermarked? Just the part that I filled in? What if I use a gen AI tool, but only apply a transformation that does not require gen AI (like adding a label on an image)? Cryptographic watermarks for Gen AI or for non-Gen AI media is dangerous from a security standpoint.