<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: WhatIsDukkha</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=WhatIsDukkha</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 06:52:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=WhatIsDukkha" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WhatIsDukkha in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Against MILLLIONS of legitimate uses which you don't seem to care to protect?<p>You should also think about whether, suddenly, courts can now trust images they see because this technology exists?<p>I think thats not even basically plausible.</p>
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<p>Yes I did read it years ago and again today?<p>If you read my original point you'd see I said "weird DRM glorp" which you and other have tried, and failed to only closely parse "DRM" so that you could nitpick poorly.<p>It is integral and part of DRM systems and certainly "weird DRM glorp" for an actual close reader.<p>DRM is not just "I cant watch X movie because DRM" even if that is the statistically prevalent understanding of DRM.<p>Its a suite of technologies of which watermarking is one of.</p>
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<p>You are asserting that the existence of metadata in other venues to be proof that this form of watermarking metadata is just fine with you and should be for everyone else because... nope don't see any reason listed here.<p>I have an IP address so therefore this is all fine?<p>"Every accusation is a confession" also seems like an insinuation that I have something to hide but you have "nothing to hide, nothing to fear"ie the very generic privacy right fallacy.<p>As for "vibes driven"... this whole technical "fix" is a result of the reactionary "vibe" of the ai moral panic, your "notes" don't seem to be providing any perspective there?</p>
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<p>You are making a category error --<p>"this image made by OpenAI" is a drm assertion<p>You wont be able to assert copyright of the picture that you added an OpenAI red bowtie to, thats a DRM issue.</p>
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<p>Yes... they do matter, perhaps using care in your understanding before attempting to nitpick?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Watermarks" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Wate...</a></p>
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<p>and you need the watermark to tell you the fish with the mustache is fake...<p>What image is going to change your worldview so radically that the drm saves you?<p>edit - to be clear you are watermarking 100,000 fishes with mustaches because of your concern over 1 image that "matters" (and you don't even have an image that matters in mind)</p>
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<p>So you are in the"nothing to hide, nothing to fear" school of privacy rights?<p>Only criminals and bad actors want private defaults?<p>The burden of proof is proving there is some harm or problem that needs solving and noone has managed that in this thread or generally.</p>
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<p>billions? of "fake" images not generated by ai but just photoshopped and ... not really harmful.<p>There is no case that any of its particularly harmful outside of things like CSAM which is illegal.</p>
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<p>"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn't lose any voters, ok? It's, like, incredible." — Donald Trump<p>So what does a deepfake matter?</p>
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<p>Its 2026... people are deliberately choosing to live in their own realities with no care about objective facts or moral choices.<p>So weird images are a big problem? No they don't matter at all.</p>
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<p>What value does "strictly speaking" bring to the discussion?<p>So that you don't have to address any of the issues?</p>
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<p>So 999 people that are just making an image need to be DRM'ed so that you might catch the 1 person making "realistic but deceptive" images... like this is some kind of special case of ... internet images.</p>
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<p>The main difference is we are in the middle of a moral panic and people have lost perspective.<p>Its a tool with different modalties and affordances.</p>
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<p>This is just performative nonsense.<p>As someone that creates things with tools with different media I would just hard avoid this tool that adds...<p>arbitrary metadata not of my choosing.<p>Should I seriously make a texture for a videogame with this weird DRM glorp in it?<p>How old is photoshop and why is it exempt?</p>
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<p>Thank you for mentioning this.<p>I wonder IFF Rust had an effects system that a Jasmin MIR transform (ie like SPIRV is for shaders)  would be useful?<p><a href="https://github.com/jasmin-lang/jasmin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jasmin-lang/jasmin</a></p>
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<p>Pretty good metaphor.<p>Limited space to work with, highly context dependent and likely to get confused as you cover more surface area.</p>
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<p>This is helpful because it makes the criminality stand out.<p>Because, yes, in democracies we have public records laws.</p>
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<p>At some point this existential doubt about your own work and others seems pretty weird.<p>Go ahead and figure out ways to interrogate on your work with technical means, that's a critical part of the process with an LLM or not.</p>
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<p>Human cultures are remixes all the way down...</p>
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<p>Social media is a Dunning Krueger support network.</p>
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