问HN：我制作了一款图像水印工具。开源它会遇到哪些问题？
几个月前，我发现 a) 视觉图像水印很容易被人工智能图像编辑所破解，因此不可见的图像水印可能是未来的发展方向；b) 唯一的隐写图像水印工具要么是难以使用的开源工具，要么是像 SynthID 这样的专有工具。于是我尝试使用代理创建一种新颖的图像水印方法……结果出乎意料地成功了：这种水印几乎不可察觉，抗篡改，容量更高，不使用神经网络，并且能够实时编码/解码。
我希望将其开源，因为图像水印有很多合法的应用。然而，最近关于图像水印的讨论非常激烈，主要有两个方面：a) 不可见的图像水印可以被用来促进反乌托邦式的用户追踪（https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198291）；b) 去除人工智能图像水印的工具是不道德的/反社会的（https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200569）。因此，我对使用水印工具的伦理问题感到困惑，并且担心通过使其更易于获取而可能带来负面外部性。至少，只有闭源的图像水印选项并不是一个好的结果。
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A couple months ago, I found that a) visual image watermarking is trivially defeated by AI image editing so invisible image watermarks are likely the future and b) the only steganographic image watermarking tools are hard-to-use open-source tools or proprietary tools like SynthID. So as an experiment I tried using agents to create a novel image watermarking approach…and it unexpectedly worked: mostly imperceptible, tamper resistant, higher capacity, doesn't use a neural network, and real time encode/decode.<p>I want to open-source it as there are very many legitimate uses for image watermarking. However, as of late there has been a lot of discourse about image watermarking on both sides, namely a) invisible image watermarks can be used to faciliate dystopian user tracking (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198291 ) and b) tools to strip AI image watermarks are unethical/antisocial (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200569), so overall I'm confused on the ethics of working with watermarking tools and I am concerned there could be a negative externality I am missing by making it more causally accessible. At the least, having only closed-sourced options for image watermarking isn't a good outcome.