Am I missing something? The article seems to suggest it works via hidden text characters. Has OpenAI never heard of pasting text into a utf8 notepad before?

  • @[email protected]
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    123 months ago

    That is a long video, is the paper published somewhere?

    Im willing to accept that you can statistically “watermark” the text, but I’m not convinced that it would be tamper resistant, which is a large part of what makes a watermark useful. If it can’t survive an idiot with a thesaurus, its probably not gonna be terribly useful.

    • @[email protected]
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      83 months ago

      It can likely also be defeated by adding “In the style of X” to a prompt, changing the distribution and pattern of the responses.

      • JackbyDev
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        23 months ago

        …but that output is also from the AI so it would still be watermarked lol

        • archomrade [he/him]
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          23 months ago

          You could feed it through a different, smaller model that could even be self-hosted. It isn’t difficult to make a model that rephrases an input in another style.

          • JackbyDev
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            23 months ago

            Ah, okay. That’s fair. It wasn’t clear they meant a different system lol.