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You and several of your siblings here are missing the point - this is not about resisting or obfuscating image content or subject or fooling an AI classifier, etc.

This imagemagick command is an attempt to remove digital forensic clues that would tie, for instance, an image posted by one pseudonym to an image posted by another pseudonym.

At what confidence level can a raw HEIC from my iphone be tied to the jpeg that results from this cropping, resizing, noise and attenuation ?

At what confidence level can one such transformed jpeg be tied to another such transformed jpeg ? (assuming that you scramble the values for (quality/shave/resize/attenuate) ...)

This is tangential to the OP and the discussion - forgive me - but I think it's an interesting tangent.



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