> I think it's useful even if it can be spoofed. Many people don't even bother to edit visible watermarks out of AI photos/videos. I'm fairly certain this will defeat 99.9% of malicious users, many of whom won't even know it exists until someone points out it's missing.
Exactly: most people don't bother editing visible watermarks out of AI-generated media, because they have little or no incentive to bother doing so. This will "defeat" the 99.9% of users who are not actually trying to do anything malicious, but will be a minor annoyance to the 0.1% of users who are actively engaging in fraud, fabrication of evidence, etc.
The upshot is that not only us this not useful for its intended purpose, it will lure people into a false sense of security by creating expectations that AI-generated media will always be easily identifiable as such, and reduce the level of scrutiny that gets applied to the stuff that actually is malicious.
Exactly: most people don't bother editing visible watermarks out of AI-generated media, because they have little or no incentive to bother doing so. This will "defeat" the 99.9% of users who are not actually trying to do anything malicious, but will be a minor annoyance to the 0.1% of users who are actively engaging in fraud, fabrication of evidence, etc.
The upshot is that not only us this not useful for its intended purpose, it will lure people into a false sense of security by creating expectations that AI-generated media will always be easily identifiable as such, and reduce the level of scrutiny that gets applied to the stuff that actually is malicious.