Many good reasons have been presented here. And on the other side, is there any reason not to do it?
(part from the effort required to put it in place)
(part from the effort required to put it in place)
And yeah, you can see the watermarking code in the huggingface pipeline now. Its pretty simple, and theres really no reason to disable it.
If it's strictly a primitive watermark with absolutely nothing unique per mark, then it might be no big deal.
https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/2367c1b9fa3126...
I see no reason to disable it. Its fast, and its no more personal than basic metadata like image format and resolution... I can't think of any use case for disabling it other than passing AI generated images as authentic.