With Opus 5.5 Praised Widely, LLM Watermarking Quality Concerns Look Overblown

paul_cal · x · 2026-10-09

paulcal argues that now that everyone loves Opus 5.5, the earlier concerns that LLM watermarking would degrade output quality have proven overblown. A one-line take feeding the ongoing debate over whether frontier labs use watermarking techniques and whether they hurt model performance.

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