Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/2110246/sora-2-watermark-removers-flood-the-web
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> Sora 2, Open AI's new AI video generator, puts a visual watermark on every video it generates. But the little cartoon-eyed cloud logo meant to help people distinguish between reality and AI-generated bullshit is easy to remove and there are [1]half a dozen websites that will help anyone do it in a few minutes . A simple search for "sora watermark" on any social media site will return links to places where a user can upload a Sora 2 video and remove the watermark. 404 Media tested three of these websites, and they all seamlessly removed the watermark from the video in a matter of seconds.
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> Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor and an expert on digitally manipulated images, said he's not shocked at how fast people were able to remove watermarks from Sora 2 videos. "It was predictable," he said. "Sora isn't the first AI model to add visible watermarks and this isn't the first time that within hours of these models being released, someone released code or a service to remove these watermarks." [...] According to Farid, Open AI is decent at employing strategies like watermarks, content credentials, and semantic guardrails to manage malicious use. But it doesn't matter. "It is just a matter of time before someone else releases a model without these safeguards," he said.
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> Both [Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security] and Farid said that the ease at which people can remove watermarks from AI-generated content wasn't a reason to stop using watermarks. "Using a watermark is the bare minimum for an organization attempting to minimize the harm that their AI video and audio tools create," Tobac said, but she thinks the companies need to go further. "We will need to see a broad partnership between AI and Social Media companies to build in detection for scams/harmful content and AI labeling not only on the AI generation side, but also on the upload side for social media platforms. Social Media companies will also need to build large teams to manage the likely influx of AI generated social media video and audio content to detect and limit the reach for scammy and harmful content."
"I'd like to know what OpenAI is doing to respond to how people are finding ways around their safeguards," Farid said. "Will they adapt and strengthen their guardrails? Will they ban users from their platforms? If they are not aggressive here, then this is going to end badly for us all."
[1] https://www.404media.co/sora-2-watermark-removers-flood-the-web/
Probably doesn't make much of a difference (Score:3)
I've already seen plenty of videos go viral on X with the Sora watermarks still intact. We're truly living in a post-fact era, where people choose what they'd like to believe even when it's plainly obvious the video is AI.
It's like the saying goes: You can't fix stupid.
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The ability to use AI to create a video exists. OpenAI is not the only one who provides this, and competitors will make even better ones in the future, one way or another. Eventually people won't need to remove watermarks, because they will be able to make AI powered videos that are just as good or better without any watermarks in the first place. This whole watermarking thing is just a PR gesture with no real impact at all.
We live in a world of deepfakes. There is no way to prevent their creation. All
Re: Probably doesn't make much of a difference (Score:2)
It probably just sounds like a humblebrag, but... don't watch video. Dont use Youtube. I've adapted. I don't use it*. You could adapt the same way. With few exceptions** its either merely trite, of just all out garbage. Outside of a few use cases, seriously, just don't use it. Learn guitar.
I stopped using YT during the pandemic. Some friend sends me a video proving that vaccines are "deadly". We all know, independent of facts, I can easily find a video rebuttal that "proves" vaccines are better for you than
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I am similar to your beliefs. It is a waste of my time to watch videos, except for a few use cases. I saw another person post that you should not post on /. I disagree. That same person probably bitches and whines that they are being censored.
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> We're truly living in a post-fact era, where people choose what they'd like to believe even when it's plainly obvious the video is AI.
I enjoyed watching Avengers even though I know Iron Man and Thor aren't real. Being entertained by videos of things that don't exist in real life existed before GenAI.
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Yeah but before that the people that made the videos had to put some effort into it. The problem isn't that it's fake. The problem is that you can now create a hundred fakes in the time it takes to prove the first one is a lie. Relatively harmless if the fake is a video of a bear flying next to a jumbo jet and waving at the fish who are passengers on board, but it's just as easy to make ruin someone's life with an AI video it took you 10 seconds to make.
Why does it matter? (Score:2)
> According to Farid, Open AI is decent at employing strategies like watermarks, content credentials, and semantic guardrails to manage malicious use.
Isn't it possible to use OPen AI's Sora to create videos that aren't malicious? If it is, then experts like this are severely mistaken.
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They've also nerfed it rather hard lately. Even attempting to generate rather generic sounding things like dancing cartoon hamsters will run into the "This content may violate our guardrails concerning similarity to third-party content." error.
Finally, a job for AI! (Score:2)
it seems to me that removing such jobs would actually be a task well fitted to an AI . . .
Three of them worked? (Score:2)
That's three more than I expected to work. As opposed to "immediately infect you with 63 different malwares simultaneously".
AI (Score:2)
This article was written by AI, posted by AI and read by AI. I'm an AI too.
Re:AI (Score:4, Funny)
[ ] Verify you associate with the mental condition formerly known as "being human".
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Negative, I am a meat popsicle.