I’m guessing this has something to do with the EU mandate for AI watermarking content
Well for the ding dong that downvoted me, here's a technical explanation of why this is a plausible theory
* current LLMs work by choosing next likely token, with a small randomization built in (emulating how humans sometimes substitute words)
* one implementation of the text marking is to "rig" the dice roll above, but do that on based upon a certain key
* so by looking at word substitutions in text, you can use a key verify it was generated by an llm.
* the algo is designed not to substitute proper nouns and some other asterisks... no idea if it's deterministic or not.
So yes, this is completely possible and even fits what happened.
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Well for the ding dong that downvoted me, here's a technical explanation of why this is a plausible theory
* current LLMs work by choosing next likely token, with a small randomization built in (emulating how humans sometimes substitute words)
* one implementation of the text marking is to "rig" the dice roll above, but do that on based upon a certain key
* so by looking at word substitutions in text, you can use a key verify it was generated by an llm.
* the algo is designed not to substitute proper nouns and some other asterisks... no idea if it's deterministic or not.
So yes, this is completely possible and even fits what happened.