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by WhatIsDukkha 23 days ago
Its 2026... people are deliberately choosing to live in their own realities with no care about objective facts or moral choices.

So weird images are a big problem? No they don't matter at all.
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Barbing 23 days ago
Political deepfakes on the mind here more than weird stuff.
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WhatIsDukkha 23 days ago
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn't lose any voters, ok? It's, like, incredible." — Donald Trump

So what does a deepfake matter?

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Barbing 23 days ago
Are there other politicians? Do disgruntled employees have bosses? Ex partners?

A national news story in the US tonight, Lyft driver caught faking photos of his messy car. Not the most intelligent fraudster as he left the Gemini logo on the corner of the image.

Providing these four examples in good faith :) also generally I _dislike_ DRM

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WhatIsDukkha 23 days ago
Against MILLLIONS of legitimate uses which you don't seem to care to protect?

You should also think about whether, suddenly, courts can now trust images they see because this technology exists?

I think thats not even basically plausible.

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spuz 23 days ago
What are some of the millions of legitimate use cases that are harmed by having metadata added to generated images? It's funny you mention Photoshop because that software also adds metadata to jpeg images that it creates. Is the difference here that the SynthID is hidden and can't be removed?
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surgical_fire 23 days ago
If they don't matter, neither does a watermark.
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WhatIsDukkha 23 days ago
and you need the watermark to tell you the fish with the mustache is fake...

What image is going to change your worldview so radically that the drm saves you?

edit - to be clear you are watermarking 100,000 fishes with mustaches because of your concern over 1 image that "matters" (and you don't even have an image that matters in mind)

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rationalist 23 days ago
Instead of giving you just one image "that matters", here's several that I found after a quick internet search that you can do too if you want more examples:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/openai-sora-realis...

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-elections...

It doesn't extend to just photos, but videos too:

https://x.com/shellenberger/status/2056764907262247356

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surgical_fire 23 days ago
Yes, let's pretend they are adding watermarks because of fishes with mustaches.
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