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Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove (www.seangoedecke.com)
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[–] Corbin@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

The author's relevant experience is in developing Copilot, not in information theory or statistics. So, when they say:

Unlike image and video watermarks, text watermarks will always be trivial to remove.

This is wrong; image and video watermarks are also trivial to destroy. In general, watermarking only works for physical objects and fails for information-theoretic objects.