Nano Banana “AI Generated Image” digital watermark easily visible (removable?) with basic image manipulation

From Reddit, people using contrast stretch and even contrast boost of an AI generated pure white image, to show the “digital watermark” which is supposed to denote evil AI content.

Research opportunity: show us what it looks like when one is tweeted and then the tweet is screencapped and reshared. Some examples in posts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nanobanana/comments/1o1tvbm/nano_bananas_watermark/

…and…

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1o3p2dt/synthid_visualisation_nanobanana_watermark/

Via:

https://twitter.com/mark_k/status/1976692285070098485

#ai #censorship #digitalWatermark #genAi #synthid #watermark

"Machine learning models are becoming increasingly becoming complex. The models are computationally intensive and use a large amount of data. These complex models are considered as intellectual property (IP) of those who trained them. To avoid the misuse of large models, we need a mechanism for proving the origin of the text, art, news, or whatever. Identifying unauthorized use opens up the door for a concept known as 'Digital Watermarking'.

We hear a lot about Ethics in AI. It is a fuzzy concept. But IP is more concrete. Regulation of IP in AI is as important as the AI itself. It needs a concrete framework. The research by the experts in the cryptography, AI, and IP protection fields is invaluable to protect a potentially trillion-dollar industry.

Although OpenAI has been pretty quiet about the security features, they are working on safeguarding their billion-dollar IP. Scott Aaronson has confirmed OpenAI is working on a few implementations."

OpenAI is Adding Watermark to GPT: No More Plagiarizing.
https://pub.towardsai.net/human-vs-gpt-methods-to-watermark-gpt-models-e23aefc63db8

#intellectualproperty #chatgpt #digitalwatermark