• Melody Fwygon
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    53 days ago

    The solution to this is subtle and gentle amounts of 2D Perlin Noise, as well as a touch of Gaussian noise on and around the watermark as well.

    The more you can cloak the area around the watermark with subtly increasing amounts of noise; the harder it is for AI to manipulate it without mangling the image in general. (or leaving the watermark behind)

    Similarly; leaving smaller artifacts like small signatures or wordmarks embedded in the image also makes sense, particularly small signatures hugging things like lineart in inconspicuous places or hidden in places with intricate detail.

    Tools like Glaze and Nightshade also exist to “Poison” images at creation-time such that, if they go viral and get re-shared and AI remixed heavily, they won’t be as easily usable by AI models to knock off your works. Yes, this technique is ineffective for existing works, as an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. These tools use many different techniques beyond just subtly masking the entire image with multiple layers of imperceptible perlin noise. Which is a task that could take you several hours to get to looking right in your favorite image editing suite, as you’ll be poking and prodding and tweaking that slider to maximize protection while minimizing it’s visual perturbations.

  • @Mothra@mander.xyz
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    103 days ago

    Ahh, great news, fellow artists and photographers. We don’t need to waste time watermarking our work anymore

  • Jo Miran
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    93 days ago

    I do that all the time for memes (watermarks or previous captions). It is literally the only useful thing I have found for the AI image editor in my phone.

  • m-p{3}
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    83 days ago

    I did it for some memes, not like I’m making money out of it.

      • GreyBeard
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        113 days ago

        Depends on the watermark that is being removed. So many memes out there have random watermarks on them of some crappy facebook account or random website that has nothing to do with the content, they just slap their logo on everything they share.