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by cm2187 974 days ago
What I don't get is who will apply the watermark? Certainly not the company running the LLM (why would they degrade the output of a commercial product?). The people submitting text generated by the LLM have no interest to do that. The only people who have interest in this watermark are the recipient but they aren't involved in the production.
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>why would they degrade the output of a commercial product?

For PR? It's not a degradation for legitimate uses of AI. It only degrades output being used in an attempt to mislead people. Someone using an LLM to e.g. translate would usually be fine admitting they used it. I'm working under the assumption this isn't intended for something like a code model where it would break things, but only for output being used as readable text.

A bunch of companies went to White House and promised they'd watermark their stuff.