> it gets stripped way too easily when sharing

that's not a bug, that's a (security) feature

It's a perfect illustration that security and usefulness are a tradeoff.

Sure is, but do we need that security feature that's common on the internet to have worse context when working with AI?

If you're a journalist taking photos of eccentric semi-fugitive John McAfee - you want the location metadata removed when posting online, in case you forgot to remove it yourself.

If you're a proud generative AI user, and you don't want anyone deceived by your images, you want the this-was-created-by-ai metadata retained.