Study finds AI watermarking damages quality, especially at long context
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-08-19
Segyges retweeted a claim that it is mathematically impossible to watermark text without damaging it. This references an analysis of the SynthID method, which Anthropic plans to base its AI watermarking system on, revealing that watermarking causes surprising damage to text quality during long-context testing.
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