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Technology@beehaw.org · 2 months ago

Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images

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Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images

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Technology@beehaw.org · 2 months ago

Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images.

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Because if the AI is in paint it gains the potential to monitor everything you do in paint. Deliberately or acidentally click the AI button? It now gets to steal your work.

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