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Google debuts a new way to watermark AI-generated images
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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TBF, I don't think the purpose of this watermark is to prevent bad people for passing AI as real. It would be a welcome side-effect but that's not why google wants this. Ultimately this is supposed to prevent AI training data from being contaminated with other AI generated content. You could imagine if the data set for training contains a million images generated with previous models having mangled fingers and crooked eyes, it would be hard to train a good AI out of that. Garbage in, garbage out.
So theoretically, those of us who put original images online could add this invisible watermark to make AI models leave our stuff out of their "steal this" pile?
Yea actually, that has a good "taste your own medecine" vibe
I’m not sure that’s the case. For instance, a lot of smaller local models leverage GPT4 to generate synthetic training data, which drastically improves the model’s output quality. The issue comes in when there is no QC on the model’s output. The same applies to Stable Diffusion.
AI-generated images are becoming increasingly realistic, AI can't tell them apart anymore.
iirc AI models becoming worse after being trained with AI generated data is an actual issue right now. Even if we (or the AI) can't distinguish them from real images there are subtle differences that can be compounded into quite large differences if the AI is fed its own work over several generations and lead to a degraded output.