Watermarking tool to prevent AI image editing can easily be thwarted

A proposed digital watermark to forestall synthetic intelligence (AI) fashions from altering actual pictures might be thwarted just by saving the picture as a JPEG file, say researchers, suggesting that managing the rise of photorealistic deepfakes can be more durable than initially thought.

Whereas AIs can generate pictures from textual content prompts alone, corresponding to these of the Pope wearing a puffer jacket that just lately went viral, they will also be used to change current photographs, creating lifelike footage of occasions that by no means occurred. A …