Explained: LLM Watermarking Relies on Probabilistic Distribution and Temperature
repligate · x · 2026-08-17
This post explains the technical mechanism behind LLM watermarking, addressing what the author calls 'Anthropic Derangement Syndrome.' It clarifies that LLMs sample tokens autoregressively based on a probability distribution. Watermarking leverages this mechanism and settings like temperature, which adjusts the distribution's shape, to embed traceable signals into the output text.
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