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I have some better options. Stop using computers, or if you use a computer, use Linux. Everything is spying on us now. Literally everything. I recently downgraded my MacBook M1 to Sonoma to avoid all this AI privacy invading BS.
Some people are suggesting systemd is spying on you because of /etc/machine-id
Injecting 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.
Haven’t printers done the same thing for decades?
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You should however not accept this state of affairs even if you exclusively use open source software because the next step is that it become illegal to have photo editing software that doesn't include the tracking information needed to protect the children, fight terrorists or whatever the boogeyman of the day is.
It's already illegal to not watermark an AI image.
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While it does make a difference, their willingness to quietly integrate watermarking features into what people saw as simple apps for doing simple tasks is unnerving. It only takes a small change for them to start baking your identifiable information into all images they edit, or some government politely asking them to do that. I wonder if in ten years we'll have a horrifying world where everything that leaves a mach…
Imagine the horrifying world where nothing is - and a so-called AI is thereby free to impersonate anyone.
I am not willing to pay the price of sending every bit I create to some megacorporation's server or stamp it with my only identity so the computer can tell me what's AI and what isn't. Especially not while the average quality settles into an uncanny valley that's often discernible with the naked eye, both for text and images.
And federally, the C2PA strongly encourages digital providence albeit without legal consequences... yet.
All AI content coming from companies that service the US market are watermarking things.
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They also added a settings menu where you can go and turn all of the things you don't like off, including that.
Then they should've left those things off by default, rather than messing with the expected flow of the application for everyone.
Ya know, this would probably be pointless but if I were a programmer (I'm not -and refuse to be a vibe coder) I'd probably just grab appropriate libraries and make my own replacements for this shit. GLTK+ (?) is an obvious choice to use for recreating mspaint, and to replace notepad -I was told making a simple editor was an excercise they have you do when you learn programming to begin with? I already replaced the 's…
Keep an eye on this. A few months back, MS incorrectly tried to stamp a Copilot "watermark" (just an auto-added note) to any and all Azure DevOps commits, regardless of whether an LLM was actually involved. They removed it after a lot of github issues were submitted to the source of the issue which was a VS Code Copilot extension. MS has been very sloppy in their implementations. I would recommend against using Paint…