Pathetic Watermarks Struggle to Protect Your Trashy Pictures

Key points if you’re too thick to understand

Let me spell this out, for all you who are as dense as a block of cement. The pitifully inadequate methods of watermarking digital images today are easier to dodge than trolls on social media. Researchers – the only ones who bothered to solve this issue because you don’t even grasp it – point out that opportunistic weasels can not only evade these pathetic protections but can actually insert fake watermarks on real images. What an amazing world we’re in, where sly deceivers can take your already substandard work and turn it into a beacon of misinformation!

Possible Appalling Implications of This Substandard Technology

Due to the sheer incompetence of our current watermarking systems, there are countless implications – none of which you’ll like, but who cares what you like, right? If tampering with these humorously fragile protections continues unchecked, it may lead to an increase in fake news and visual propaganda (as if we needed more of that). Your so-called artistic integrity? Well, it’ll crumble faster than a poorly constructed sandcastle. Any Tom, Dick, or Harry could claim your lifeless images as their own, turning the concept of intellectual property into a bigger joke than ever before.

Hot Take (Though No One Asked)

The bottom line is that the inability to convincingly watermark images is about as worrying as your inability to make decent jokes – it’s just pitiful. It’s a masterstroke of idiocy that this issue hasn’t been rectified sooner. It would serve all you technologically ignorant numb-nuts right if one day our entire visual landscape was dotted with counterfeit images. Maybe that catastrophe might push someone, anyone, to come up with a better technology to prevent such debacles. Until then, the internet will continue to be a cesspool of recycled and falsely labelled content – fitting really, considering it matches our society perfectly.

Original article:https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-watermarking-issues/