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I was stating that MS Paint mis categorized a Print Screen screenshot as AI generated when pasted. Which pushed me to install PaintdotNet onto my laptop instead

• TeMPOraL 23d ago
  > mis categorized a Print Screen screenshot as AI generated Maybe. Question is, was that a false positive, or merely a bad user-facing message? Assuming you didn't have any AI-generated images caught in the screenshot (e.g. some advert - plenty of those even in Microsoft apps like Weather, nowadays), what if - and I'm speculating here; I don't know if anyone actually does it yet, but it's so obvious they eventually will - - what if parts of your screenshot already had an invisible watermark on it, like the ones for tagging AI images? You can imagine an app rendering its window to texture, and embedding a watermark on those pixels before sending it over to the system compositor, and the reasons have nothing to do with AI. Watermarks are DRM tech. "AI generated" is just a specific kind of metadata that can be put in one, and a huge red herring for discussions. It's only a matter of time before we'll need to have software for detecting and removing real-time watermarks from display output at OS level. (Unless, of course, platforms decide to add app window live watermarking as a "feature", and given the story with remote attestation, I think it's more than likely.)