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ButlerianJihadtoday at 3:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Actually it is because it learned from human writing styles.

Perhaps you mean "watermarked" rather than "fingerprinted" which is a rather different concept. No, whether or not the output text has been through a watermarking process, it will still retain the same style and substance, because it learned from human writing styles. Watermarking of LLM text works by being more or less transparent and undetectable.


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micromacrofoottoday at 4:30 PM

indeed, a lot of people think watermarking means "these words in this order" but it's more like "given this sequence, choose token B rather than token A" and it's the difference between "yes you are right" and "yes you are correct"... and in a paragraph it might be a series of 5 micro-decisions that culminates to a watermark that is otherwise unclear from a shorter string