> OpenAI, Adobe, and Microsoft now support California's AB 3211, which mandates watermarks on AI-generated content. Ewww. Gross.

What's gross? (not arguing, asking respectfully) The watermarks are on the content's metadata, not visibly on the images like stock photos have. In addition to allowing platforms to label some images as AI-generated to help curb misinformation, it potentially will make it easier for platforms to pay the actual content creators instead of reposters.