The idea that language models can write anything remotely useful yet is - mostly - a fallacy.
It's a good idea for many human endeavors to be able to identify AI writing. Communication, after all, is our main way of building the social fabric.
However - and crucially - good writing is still beyond the frontier of any model I've seen so far.
Watermarks for the things that truly matter may not be important at all.
Finally, as X commentators have shown, simply removing punctuation or changing a word here or adding an adverb there manually will screw up the whole process enormously.
The best will be the clever folks who retroactively apply the model distribution to fraud or other crimes to try to implicate the companies via watermark.
Gotta feel for their product, policy and legal team.
It's a good idea for many human endeavors to be able to identify AI writing. Communication, after all, is our main way of building the social fabric.
However - and crucially - good writing is still beyond the frontier of any model I've seen so far.
Watermarks for the things that truly matter may not be important at all.
Finally, as X commentators have shown, simply removing punctuation or changing a word here or adding an adverb there manually will screw up the whole process enormously.
The best will be the clever folks who retroactively apply the model distribution to fraud or other crimes to try to implicate the companies via watermark.
Gotta feel for their product, policy and legal team.