What if biologists had watermarked their proteins all along? A nerdy IP joke
KevinKaichuang · x · 2026-10-03
miangoar imagines a counterfactual: what would biology look like if everyone had watermarked their protein sequences before the AI era? He writes a mock protein sequence embedding "watermarks" like BLAST, HMMER, the Frances Arnold lab, and a PDB license forbidding expression in mice — a wry commentary on today's AI watermarking debates and scientific data ownership.
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