Keep it simple: the more you say, the less people remember
I have a secret way to tell what s on people s minds: they all write to me about a topic. This time, there s a news article about the EU AI Act . The big requirement is in Article 50: Transparency Obligations for Providers and Deployers of Certain AI Systems . This recently became enforceable and requires marking AI-generated content: 2. Providers of AI systems, including general-purpose AI…
As part of my People Tech Support Duties (PTSD), I have come across all sorts of users. Usually they have at least a little computer literacy. For example, if I tell them over the phone to turn the computer off or press the power button, they usually don t need to be told where the button is located. (I say "usually", because there has been the rare case where I had to tell the person which box…
My laptop is one of my most important tools. While my servers and office systems have all of my configured software and documents, I can t take them with me on customer trips, or even to the living room for some late-night catching up while watching TV. The laptop is basically my portable window into my office. I don t need a powerful laptop. I m not a gamer and I rarely develop software directly…
I m wrapping up my investigation into invisible watermark algorithms and I am extremely disappointed. Not only do none of the modern AI-based algorithms work as they claim, it turns out that they are all making the same fundamental mistake. I previously evaluated Google s SynthID and Adobe s TrustMark algorithms. Both of them claim to have incredibly accurate results. According to Google s…
One of my projects for this year was to create an invisible watermark detector for FotoForensics . The idea was to reliably identify if an invisible watermark existed in the uploaded media. However, I ve been hitting some roadblocks. Specifically: existing invisible watermark technology is unreliable. For example, when I evaluated SynthID two months ago, I demonstrated how it (1) fails to detect…