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SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI

(deepmind.google)
110 points jonbaer | 2 comments | 30 Aug 25 03:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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utilize1808 ◴[30 Aug 25 08:59 UTC] No.45073112[source]▶
I feel this is not the scalable/right way to approach this. The right way would be for human creators to apply their own digital signatures to the original pieces they created (specialised chips on camera/in software to inject hidden pixel patterns that are verifiable). If a piece of work lacks such signature, it should be considered AI-generated by default.
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shkkmo ◴[30 Aug 25 09:10 UTC] No.45073155[source]▶
That seems like a horrible blow to anonymity and psuedonymity that would also empower identity thieves.
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1. taminka ◴[30 Aug 25 11:45 UTC] No.45073831[source]▶
there's very likely already some sort of fingerprinting in camera chips, à la printer yellow dot watermarks that uniquely identify a printer and a print job...
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2. shkkmo ◴[30 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45077007[source]▶
The way those work is primarily through a combination of obscurity (most people don't know they exist) and through a lack of real finacial incentive to break them at scale.

I would also argue that those techniques do greatly reduce privacy and anonymity.