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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Post by toilet »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #137
saejox wrote: post #104

These days i cant recommend Windows to anybody. Even gamers should move to linux. Some say "i do nothing illegal" "have nothing to hide". You dont do anything illegal in your point of view. AI tracking you might think otherwise. A sudden knock on your door might happen because of an ambigious search/propmt.

Others say "I need it to work on a random Thursday, not wait for fsck after ever reboot" https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/CasaOS/issues/1104

I have the same issue on Windows 11. It's been bugging me to press a button or "check my drive" on every startup for at least half a year, no matter how often I let it run the check...

Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Post by quik95 »

toilet wrote: post #141
1970-01-01 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Others say "I need it to work on a random Thursday, not wait for fsck after ever reboot" https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/CasaOS/issues/1104

I have the same issue on Windows 11. It's been bugging me to press a button or "check my drive" on every startup for at least half a year, no matter how often I let it run the check...

Same thing happened to me recently

Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Post by refulgentis »

dylan604 wrote: post #95
refulgentis wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A guid isn’t a user id, if it is in this case, it’s an abuse of how guid is used, at least colloquially. I haven’t read enough to understand if it is user / machine id, I.e. only globally unique in the sense it’s a globally unique entity identifier.

They stated the GUID is used to identify the prompt used to generate the image. How are you confused as to not being able to identify the user? "I haven’t read enough to understand". Oh, now I know the answer to my question

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Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Post by imhoguy »

kvuj wrote: post #94
petjuh wrote: post #70

This reminds me that in the USSR they had typewriters that added an identifier somehow that could be traced back to that particular typewriter (and who it was sold to)

You have no idea how deep this rabbit hole goes. Search for EFF printers secret tracking. Virtually all commercial printers embed an invisible identifier on every page printed.

Now I need to see if agentic reverse engineering of printer firmware can actually remove that "feature" for good.

Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Post by frig57 »

saejox wrote: post #104

These days i cant recommend Windows to anybody. Even gamers should move to linux. Some say "i do nothing illegal" "have nothing to hide". You dont do anything illegal in your point of view. AI tracking you might think otherwise. A sudden knock on your door might happen because of an ambigious search/propmt.

Anyone got tips or guides to starting a linux OS that protects privacy without sacrificing utility?

Considering putting linux on a 2nd PC

Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Post by frig57 »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #2

AI-generated text warning (I submitted - but did not author - the piece), but it seems MS Paint and MS Photos add both a visible (can be turned off) and invisible (cannot be disabled and happens silently in the background with no user notice) watermarks to photos that have been AI-manipulated, even when using a local model to perform the action. It's not clear if this applies to even things like using AI-enhanced bac…

How do they add a watermark to local llm content?

Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Post by AngryData »

clear0250 wrote: post #105
BitwiseFool wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows 11 effectively forces users to register with a Microsoft account. Once that's established, all it takes is for an unaware user to fill out an e-commerce form and save an address for auto-fill.

> Windows 11 effectively forces users to register with a Microsoft account. It takes zero effort to bypass that with Rufus, if you set up your own pc.

A bypass existing is good, needing a bypass in the first place is still a problem.

Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Post by RobotToaster »

saejox wrote: post #104

These days i cant recommend Windows to anybody. Even gamers should move to linux. Some say "i do nothing illegal" "have nothing to hide". You dont do anything illegal in your point of view. AI tracking you might think otherwise. A sudden knock on your door might happen because of an ambigious search/propmt.

Genuine question: does Linux have an AI image editor as easy to use as the win11 paint/photos?

Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Post by b5n »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #137
saejox wrote: post #104

These days i cant recommend Windows to anybody. Even gamers should move to linux. Some say "i do nothing illegal" "have nothing to hide". You dont do anything illegal in your point of view. AI tracking you might think otherwise. A sudden knock on your door might happen because of an ambigious search/propmt.

Others say "I need it to work on a random Thursday, not wait for fsck after ever reboot" https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/CasaOS/issues/1104

Why have you linked a bug report for a niche userland application that may be causing disk corruption as evidence against linux reliability? That seems like a pretty uninformed conclusion.

Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Post by jkaplowitz »

jijji wrote: post #90
nemomarx wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to know more about the GUID part and how easy is it so deanonymize yeah. But if it's only on ai generation and not on all images it seems easy enough to work around that part? Still better than printers doing it no matter what you're printing.

The article says that once converted to BMP all the metadata gets removed....so on linux: convert file.jpg file.bmp; convert file.bmp file.jpg

It says that about the C2PA content credentials metadata, but not about the modified image pixels.
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