The burden of proof is flipping: proving human authorship in the AI slop era
xuandongzhao · x · 2026-09-22
xuandongzhao notes watermarking research long aimed to prove content was AI-made. As AI slop floods the internet, the burden of proof is flipping: the question becomes whether we can prove a human wrote something—or actually did the work.
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