Does Watermarking Degrade Text Quality? New Project Aims to Find Out
TuhinChakr · x · 2026-08-16
Tuhin Chakraborty announces a new project: investigating whether watermarking meaningfully degrades the quality and meaning of text. He quotes @hammermt's view that watermarking is fundamentally hostile to writers, as there's a huge difference between choosing 'grey' vs 'overcast'.
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