Re: PSA: Python Pillow was used for image crushing to foil Gemini AI image identification

On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:31:42 -0700, Maria Sophia wrote:

> Python Pillow was used to try to foil AI image detection
> https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/tested-google-synthid-works-great-but-labeling-ai-content-may-be-a-losing-game/
>
> I'm surprised it's so hard, but where it matters is for years, we've
> been "destroying" images so that they can't be correlated by their
> sensor defects, but if it's this difficult to destroy the
> cryptography Google AI adds, that means it's not easy.

One thing the article didn’t mention, is trying to mix multiple
AI-generated images in various ways, to see what that does to their
respective SynthID markers. And applying various bandwidth-filtering
techniques (because the SynthID marker apparently takes the form of an
“audio waveform”).