Ars Technica: Google’s SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more. “How can we know what’s real in the age of AI? Google’s answer is SynthID, which it first demonstrated three years ago. The company says SynthID has since been used to label 100 billion images and videos, plus 60,000 years’ worth of audio. Those numbers are only going up now that SynthID is […]

"Sora 2, Open AI’s new AI video generator, puts a visual watermark on every video it generates. But the little cartoon-eyed cloud logo meant to help people distinguish between reality and AI-generated bullshit is easy to remove and there are half a dozen websites that will help anyone do it in a few minutes.

A simple search for “sora watermark” on any social media site will return links to places where a user can upload a Sora 2 video and remove the watermark. 404 Media tested three of these websites, and they all seamlessly removed the watermark from the video in a matter of seconds.
Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor and an expert on digitally manipulated images, said he’s not shocked at how fast people were able to remove watermarks from Sora 2 videos. “It was predictable,” he said. “Sora isn’t the first AI model to add visible watermarks and this isn’t the first time that within hours of these models being released, someone released code or a service to remove these watermarks.”"

https://www.404media.co/sora-2-watermark-removers-flood-the-web/

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TechXplore: Semantic watermarks for AI image recognition can be easily manipulated. ” In a talk at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025) on June 15 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., the team revealed fundamental security flaws in the supposedly resilient watermarking techniques.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/techxplore-semantic-watermarks-for-ai-image-recognition-can-be-easily-manipulated/