Google Debuts (hidden) Watermarks for AI-Generated Text

[rcjordan]

https://spectrum.ieee.org/watermark

[ergophobe]

This is sort of like robots.txt.

robots.txt is useful, but only insofar as it is effective at controlling well-behaved bots that seek to be compliant.

In other words...

However, the researchers acknowledge in their paper that it's still easy to alter a Gemini-generated text and fool the detector.

In Peter Hamilton's Pandora's Star/Judas Unchained, he outlines the more likely scenario - the AIs advance to such a level they grow bored of human affairs and self-exile to a planet where they can be left alone and leave humans with relatively rudimentary AI ;-)

[rcjordan]

Dark Debbie says that its really intended to be yet-another tracker.