Watermarking and Entropy: Not Always Neutral in LLM Outputs

AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-08-16

In a discussion on LLM watermarking, Aaron Bergman notes that watermarking is neutral only when two tokens have similar probabilities, but not always. He responds to concerns that watermarking will degrade Claude responses, saying constraints inevitably have effects.

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