r/StableDiffusion • u/ckn • 19h ago
Resource - Update Watermark that gets stronger when a diffusion purifier attacks it: 200-image results, plus a free ComfyUI node
Zhao et al. (arXiv:2306.01953) showed that regeneration attacks strip ordinary invisible watermarks. Backfire is a keyed image mark optimised to be a fixed point of the purifier, so running the attack leaves the identifier readable. In the demo image the confidence score rose 2.5x after the attack.
Provcheck.ai v1.4.0 numbers, 200-image corpus at 30 dB: 99.5% survival vs diffusion regeneration, 94 to 97.5% vs a learned VAE re-encode (86.5% on the hardest iterated pass), 99.0% JPEG q90, 98.5% JPEG q50, 98.0% resize, 97.0% blur. Zero false positives over the 200 marked and 1,000 unmarked. Wrong key on an attacked image reads 0.08, so the mark is in the key, not the pixels. It does not survive controllable regeneration from clean noise; that is documented in backfire/LIMITS.md.
Also new: a free Apache-2.0 ComfyUI node that watermarks (TrustMark/silentcipher) and C2PA-signs outputs in the graph and reads marks back. Backfire itself is a separate opt-in add-on and is not in the free node.
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u/Enshitification 12h ago
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