ML Author Protests LLM Watermarks, Releases Dehydrate Removal Tool

Andriy Burkov criticized frontier closed-source LLMs for injecting statistical watermarks into paid generated text, arguing users own what they pay for. He released Dehydrate, a tool to strip such watermarks.

2026-10-07 ~ 2026-10-08 · 2 related posts

• Researcher ships Dehydrate, a tool to strip watermarks from closed-weight LLM text — burkov · 2026-10-07
• Burkov slams watermarking in paid LLM outputs: 'I paid for this text' — burkov · 2026-10-08