Comment by happytoexplain
3 hours ago
Yeah, but it's better than nothing.
People underestimate the value of rules that only take malice and a little knowledge to break.
And they tend to exaggerate that underestimation if they... don't like the rule.
3 hours ago
Yeah, but it's better than nothing.
People underestimate the value of rules that only take malice and a little knowledge to break.
And they tend to exaggerate that underestimation if they... don't like the rule.
I even see the Gemini diamond watermark on so many fake social media profile pictures. You could ask an LLM to find a github project that removes/inpaints those watermarks and be done with it. Or you could just use the API, which doesn't stamp the visible diamond on it (just the invisible synthID).
Most people are generally lazy. They upload text to LinkedIn full of "genuine", "honest" and "load-bearing".
Yes! How many people have been caught committing fraud because they used a modern word processor and fonts to forge old documents? How many leaks have occurred because people failed to redact documents correctly, despite there being easy to use tools for this very purpose? How many people neglected to strip sensitive EXIF information from images they share (before websites started doing it for them)? How many people flat out post evidence of their crimes on social media?
Yes, this watermark will be easy to strip. It is still valuable for the vast majority of times where people just don't.
Exactly. If this works on pull requests, for instance, it'd be really useful for projects trying to do a first-pass filter to close slop spam.
Can it work on code itself? Obviously if you get AI to write the PR description that could be watermarked, but code isn't going to like random unicode, and the sythID approach feels like it would fall apart in the quite strict syntax of most code.
If a language supports unicode it will have a fairly permissive definition of whitespace, and it will be easy to generate permutations of the whitespace that meet the syntax requirements.
Of course I would want my code formatting tool to normalize that all to plain 0x20 spaces. But it would still be a helpful "brown M&M" test of did you even read CONTRIBUTING and run the code formatter before submitting this PR?
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