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This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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With the rise of AI, how are you protecting your images? Especially if AI can just remove your watermark? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by coffeeislife_SA@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Just a random thought for the morning.

Watermarks used to be the way to go, to stop people from just taking your images and using them however they want. They’re also used to send sample images and then ask for payment.

With AI advancing, it’s very likely going to get easier for the layperson to click a button and have AI remove your watermark.

How do you plan to safeguard against this?

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[–] lilgreenrosetta@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I never watermarked an image in my life, and I’ve been shooting professionally for over a decade. I’ve also seen the websites of thousands of other professionals and literally nobody I take seriously watermarks their images. The only exception are one or two agency or gallery sites I follow.

Rather than watermarks, use search tools to periodically check to see if your images pop up somewhere. If they do, get paid.

[–] WhatAGoodDoggy@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What search tools would you recommend?

[–] codeprimate@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Tineye.com

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