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LPisGoodtoday at 3:43 PM1 replyview on HN

Anthropic’s watermark is just using a known collection of random seeds during output token generation. That’s it. The models always relied on some randomness, here the randomness is fixed and remembered for querying later.


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thaumasiotestoday at 8:11 PM

> Anthropic’s watermark is just using a known collection of random seeds during output token generation. That’s it.

Wouldn't that mean that checking the watermark...

(1) Required knowing the prompt used to generate the text; and

(2) was just as expensive as generating the text?