Comment by VladVladikoff
1 day ago
Super important for Google as a search engine so they can filter out and downrank AI generated results. However I expect there are many models out there which don’t do this, that everyone could use instead. So in the end a “feature” like this makes me less likely to use their model because I don’t know how Google will end up treating my blog post if I decide to include an AI generated or AI edited image.
It’s required by EU regulations. Any public generator that doesn’t do it, is in violation of that unless it’s entirely inaccessible from the EU…
But of course there’s no way to enforce it on local generation.
The EU didn't define any specific method of watermarking nor does it need to be tamper resistant. Even if they had specified it though, it's easy to remove watermarks like SynthID.
I have been curious about this myself. I tried a few basic stenography detection type tools to look for watermarks but didn’t find anything. Are you aware of any tools that do what you are suggesting?