Strangers are slapping fake names on my digital art online

I keep finding my pieces reposted with altered signatures. It's a constant battle to protect my work.

4 comments

4 Comments

logan5251mo agoTop Commenter

Bots stripping watermarks does sound intense, but how often does that actually happen? Feels like one of those rare internet horror stories that gets passed around.

smith.nancy1mo ago

Ugh that's so frustrating. I read somewhere that people use bots to strip watermarks now, which is just next level messed up.

faith_hart201mo ago

I thought watermark removal was rare too until it happened to my friend last week.

claire_grant3418d ago

Logan's right that full bot stripping isn't super common yet, but the fake signature thing is a different kind of headache. It's not a bot removing a mark, it's a person actively putting their own name on your work. I've seen it happen where someone just paints over the real signature in Photoshop and types in "johnsmithart" instead. It makes claiming your own stuff way harder because now it looks like it's signed by someone else.