alt Hacker NewsWatermarks are garbage because they may embed account id, IP address and deanonimize you. That's why we should be using open-weights LLM whenever possible.
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alienbaby • yesterday at 11:41 PM
This is the first post I've seen mention it. How traceable are the embedded codes?
I don’t disagree about open weights (though the key aspect there is actually open source inference, right?)
But it feels to me like you would need a hell of a lot of text to bury even a simple account ID. The nudges they are talking about are of the order of a handful of bits over several hundred words, I think?