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Watermarks exists to create a chain of custody or attribution that can be used to establish culpability. Just like the government requires printer companies to
by digitaltrees 5mo ago
Watermarks exists to create a chain of custody or attribution that can be used to establish culpability. Just like the government requires printer companies to add a dot matrix watermark to printed pages to prevent currency forgery.
Making untraceable assets means parties can’t be held liable for harms.
Just because a bad actor might poison a toddler doesn’t mean you should sell them the arsenic.
Just because the effects of arsenic on the neurons of a brain are interesting means you should feed them to a toddler and watch the effects unfold.
I support the legal freedom to pursue any idea, but we should also mentor our colleagues about the consequences of our projects and avoid unnecessary harm.
- vasco 5mo agoWhat is it with people that take your position that they always need to bring children to the discussion? Where's the watermark in an IKEA knife?
- digitaltrees 5mo agoIs an ikea knife infinitely replicable, distributable and capable of undermining the entire social fabric of a community? No. so these are not the same category of threat potential. Further, an ikea knife used in a crime can be traced back to the criminal through other evidence like finger prints, surveillance cameras, purchase receipts etc. Arguments that have a emotional component, especially related to our evolutionary instinct to take care of kids has a way of avoiding the rationalizations people adopt to justify otherwise indefensible behavior. You also dont do yourself any favors in a bad argument that lumps me in with some unknown group of people rather tan responding to my argument.
- xeyownt 5mo agoNo. All watermarks are cures that are worse than the diseases they are trying to prevent (and never achieved to even cure anything). Watermark is a blatant violation of legitimate privacy expectations, while not preventing anything because they can be easily removed. So all the honest usages are punished, while illegitimate ones are not caught.
- digitaltrees 5mo agoA water mark that identifies you personally is a different prospect than one that merely identifies the image as AI generated. I am with you on opposing a watermark that identifies a person. I am not with you in saying all watermarks are a violation of privacy or that they result in punishment of honest use. I don’t see how those follow.