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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
#342My goodness, this has nothing to do with AI problems. I don't understand that people still buy an OS from a company that actively hates it's customers. The amount of things they pull should not even be succesful on a OS you get paid FOR to use.
Microsoft is still the best Indian OS manufacturer. And as such, it's forced upon people throats by corrupt Indian IT department heads, so a few non Indian people who actually care don't have a choice.
You know, you're only supposed to drink the kool aid, not chug it by the gallon.
Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
#343Microsoft is in a pretty good position to do something that can be valuable to certain institutions.
Imaging every pdf file, every image, every office documents, and every video has a hidden record of the associated Microsoft accounts of all computers it has ever passed through. This should sell well, and realistically nobody can stop them. Why haven't Microsoft done this much earlier?
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#344The visible watermark toggle giving users a false sense of control while the invisible GUID persists regardless is the worst part. People who turn off the watermark think they opted out.
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft is still the best Indian OS manufacturer. And as such, it's forced upon people throats by corrupt Indian IT department heads, so a few non Indian people who actually care don't have a choice.
You know, you're only supposed to drink the kool aid, not chug it by the gallon.
You never met anyone from the corporate IT?
Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
#346Injecting hidden GUIDs into local files without explicit user consent is a massive privacy overreach. It makes you wonder what other local tools are silently tagging user generated content.
Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
#347Injecting hidden GUIDs into local files without explicit user consent is a massive privacy overreach. It makes you wonder what other local tools are silently tagging user generated content.
The question is whether LLM providers are going to do this. Anthropic currently says they don’t, but it’s impossible to verify:
> Watermarking carries no identifying information and can’t be traced to a specific person, organization, or chat;
Re: MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
#348Commercial companies with closed-source software, cloud software will always betray you.
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#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's very likely your printer is secretly adding marks to the page It's most likely how the FBI caught NSA leaker Reality Winner: > Both journalists and security experts have suggested that The Intercept's handling of the documents, which included publishing the documents unredacted and including the printer tracking dots, was used to identify Winner as the leaker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner
Yeah - these criminal agencies use this to protect their billionaire buddies on top. The Epstein network must be really huge. I always wondered how one or two person can meta-coordinate +5000 underage girl and their +10000 customers. That never made any sense to me, yet suspiciously enough only Ghislaine is in prison. That does not add up.
There isn't just one Epstein network. There are many similar networks.