Instead of watermarking AI, we need start watermarking humans.

I feel like theres been a massive emphasis on watermarking AI, which seems almost like a losing battle. People will always have unwatermarked models to summarize things,and/or just modify it lightly themselves.

I think the industry should move more towards watermarking things humans make. I know it might sound ridiculous, but for every piece of human-created work, someone had to type characters, draw on a physical pad, and much more.

I believe we should start embedding that process into text, images, etc. This system will not be perfect, but it is a hell of a lot easier than watermarking AI text, images, videos, etc. People will of course, get around it, but this will make it just a bit harder.

For text, something about edit count, time taken to write it, pauses, etc, etc. I know people are going to hate this idea, but that metadata can then get hashed, and some big corp can compare hashes of people's text with ones in their own database.