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Comment by echelon

1 day ago

This watermarking ceremony is useless.

We will always have local models. Eventually the Chinese will release a Nano Banana equivalent as open source.

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dragonwriter  1 day ago

> We will always have local models.

If watermarking becomes a legal mandate, it will inevitably include a prohibition on distributing (and using and maybe even possessing, but the distribution ban is the thing that will have the most impact, since it is the part that is most policable, and most people aren't going to be training their own models, except, of course, the most motivated bad actors) open models that do not include watermarking as a baked-in model feature. So, for most users, it'll be much less accessible (and, at the same time, it won't solve the problem.)

  • ahtihn  15 hours ago

    I don't see how banning distribution would do anything: distributing pirated games, movies, software is banned in most countries and yet pirated content is trivial to find for anyone who cares.

    As long as someone somewhere is publishing models that don't watermark output, there's basically nothing that can stop those models from being used.