Watermarking proteins is easy — removing them with proteinmpnn is easier, researcher warns
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-04
In a discussion on watermarking AI-generated proteins or DNA, @sokrypton notes that adding a watermark has never been the hard part. The bigger issue: tools like proteinmpnn can now easily strip such watermarks, making biological-sequence provenance marking largely ineffective.
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