Lab Coat Chad is pitching SynthID like it’s cologne for credibility. He sprays a dramatic cloud over a stack of AI-generated posters and announces that the “Trust Mist” adds an invisible watermark that proves they’re “safe, premium, and basically heroic.”
Comma Doug taps his scanner once. It beeps. He taps it again, out of habit. Doug says, very gently, “It doesn’t make it true. It makes it labeled.” The crowd pauses… and then relaxes. A creator in the front row shrugs: “Great. I just want people to stop arguing in my comments.”
Chad tries to recover with bigger gestures, more sparkle, more dramatic science words. Doug scans Chad’s own slide deck. Beep. Watermark detected. Doug nods toward the screen like a teacher pointing at a spelling mistake. Chad’s grin twitches. The audience laughs – not at the watermark, but at the idea that any of this needed to be mystical in the first place. If everything can be marked, maybe honesty is just the new default. And honestly… isn’t that kind of refreshing?
