AI Glossary / Watermark

🛡️ Safety and quality

Watermark in AI context is a signature embedded in generated content - usually invisible to humans but algorithmically detectable. In images it's subtle pixel patterns, in text - statistical traces of word choice, in audio - inaudible modulations. Watermarks help distinguish synthetic content from real, becoming a requirement in successive regulations. Their weakness: after editing, compression or processing, the mark can be hard to recover, so it's one layer of protection rather than definitive proof of origin.