audiowmark

This is very similar to audiowmark https://github.com/swesterfeld/audiowmark You can stuff per-item database unique IDs, user IDs, geohashes, and other nefarious things inside. We need to protest this LOUDLY. Our devices are being locked down, we're having attestation and trusted computing forced on us, the internet all over the world is undergoing age verification with full ID verification. Just because this is on "ai images" today doesn't mean it won't be on all images - screenshots, your camera reel, etc. - in the fullness of time. This is scary. These are the tools of 1984. They've been boiling the water slowly, but in the last year things have really started to pick up pace. Please push back. Loudly. Everyone at Google and OpenAI working on this: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING. STOP. We have laws and mechanisms to prevent revenge porn,

I'm not going to mince words - what you're saying is dangerous and harmful. > to be clear can not track you in any way All they have to do is encode enough entropy for a database unique identifier. Systems like this have been used to do it for audio: https://github.com/swesterfeld/audiowmark SynthID payloads work the same way, and the paper discusses encoding a "user identifier": https://arxiv.org/html/2510.09263v1#S5 All you need to do is encode a database identifier, GeoIP, or other identifying information, and you've violated a person's privacy without their knowledge or consent. Once these systems become popular, the intelligence agencies will "suggest" that Google adds it to their phone cameras. It will start seeping into everything. The "slippery slope" is not a fallacy. We're on the verge of having device attestation and identity v

It is not too surprising that many HTML or JS based watermarking schemes are very easy to remove, some even via a script. For watermarking schemes to be effective, the watermark payload needs to be embedded in the content. Here's one approach that works for images: https://github.com/tim-janik/imagewmark/ Another that works for audio content is: https://github.com/swesterfeld/audiowmark Incidentally, the latter also supports applying the watermark payload to HLS segments.

What watermarking libraries for images, audio, or video is HN using? We've found a number of them, but the good ones are GPL3 [1]. I might email the authors about getting a license if there isn't anything equivalent. [1] https://github.com/swesterfeld/audiowmark is fantastic