I haven’t been looking recently, but I assume that most image hosting services have been stripping EXIF metadata, or at least some of it, for years. Imgur strips it; it was used for image hosting for Reddit for a long time.
On lemmy, pict-rs strips EXIF metadata. It’s a real annoyance on [email protected], because the AI image generators I’ve seen attach metadata to indicate that:
The image was generated via AI
Prompt keywords used to generate the image, if using something like Automatic1111.
In the case of ComfyUI, the entire workflow, so that someone can go produce the entire workflow that led to the image.
I’d kind of prefer that there be some software that try to identify personally-identifiable data and have pict-rs run that and only remove that. Or, alternately, let the user opt in to not stripping EXIF metadata.
I haven’t been looking recently, but I assume that most image hosting services have been stripping EXIF metadata, or at least some of it, for years. Imgur strips it; it was used for image hosting for Reddit for a long time.
On lemmy, pict-rs strips EXIF metadata. It’s a real annoyance on [email protected], because the AI image generators I’ve seen attach metadata to indicate that:
The image was generated via AI
Prompt keywords used to generate the image, if using something like Automatic1111.
In the case of ComfyUI, the entire workflow, so that someone can go produce the entire workflow that led to the image.
I’d kind of prefer that there be some software that try to identify personally-identifiable data and have pict-rs run that and only remove that. Or, alternately, let the user opt in to not stripping EXIF metadata.