Stable Diffusion — The Invisible Watermark in Generated Images

Steins
4 min readOct 28, 2022

Table of Contents

· Invisible Watermark
· Code
· How Does It Work?
Where Is The Watermark Being Inserted?
· How to Check?
· Is It Removable?
· Any Tracking?
· References

AI artwork, AI artwork everywhere
AI artwork, AI artwork everywhere

While everyone is using Stable Diffusion to generate artwork, have you ever realized there is a watermark in the generated images?

Invisible Watermark

The official Stable Diffusion code uses a Python library called invisible-watermark to embed an invisible watermark on the generated images.

By “invisible”, I mean real invisible — invisible to the human eye.

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Steins

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