> That's a lot of hyperbole, there's no cause/effect relationship I can think of here that could realistically produce your slippery slope.

Have you been watching the headlines over the last year? It's like there's a global push towards locked down and verified computing (age verification, TPMs everywhere, Captchas that only work on non-rooted phones, ...).

You can look out the window and see movement in this direction happening right now. Governments and corporations around the world can't get enough of this shit. Privacy matters, advocating for it is not a "slippery slope."

> this AI detection watermark [...] that to be clear can not track you in any way.

Is that clear? We have no idea what metadata they are or aren't embedding in SynthID.

> Google or anyone else could start adding those unique tracking watermarks you're concerned about any time they want,

The point is that this is bad and should be denounced!