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by epivosism 991 days ago
Wasn't this obvious from the get go that this can't work?

If AI will eventually generate say 10k by 10k images, I can resize to 2.001k by 1.999k or similar, and I just don't get how any subtle signal in the pixels can persist through that.

Maybe you could do something at the compositional level, but that seems restrictive to the output. Maybe something about like larger regions average color balance or something? But you wouldn't be able to fit many bits in there, especially when you need to avoid triggering accidentally.

Also: here are some play money markets for whether this will work:

https://manifold.markets/Ernie/midjourney-images-can-be-effe...

https://manifold.markets/Ernie/openai-images-have-a-useful-a...

2 comments

> Wasn't this obvious from the get go that this can't work?

It needs to publicly fail first to manufacture consent for full surveillance of every human interaction with any computer. Nobody would ever want that otherwise.

Normal watermarking solutions can survive resizes.