alt Hacker NewsNo, they are very resistant to modification that can be done easily. That being said I doubt it is impossible
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snissn • yesterday at 8:20 PM
I’m surprised! I guess I’m being naive but I would imagine you could pass an image to an image model without synthid and have it reconstruct the image in a net new way without the markers. I guess I’m wrong? That’s cool if the watermarks are so deeply ingrained that they persist
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Yeah cropping, color shifting, resizing and compression don’t remove it. That said, there’s pretty well known workarounds:
https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks