AI Text Watermarking Called Ineffective: Rewriting with Another AI Easily Bypasses It
miniapeur · x · 2026-08-11
An argument highlights that text watermarking, except in special cases like poetry, fundamentally cannot work. Users can simply use another AI to read the text and rewrite the same underlying content in its own words. While verbatim text can be watermarked, it is impossible to watermark the underlying meaning or information the text represents.
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