If the academics can hack together an open source solution why haven’t they? Seems like it would be a highly cited, very popular paper. What’s the theory on why they don’t do it?
Just spitballing, but it doesn’t seem theoretically interesting to academics unless they’re bringing something novel (algorithmically or in design) to the table, and practically not useful unless implemented widely, since it’s trivial for e.g. college students to use the least watermarked model.
One, even if no one used it, there would still be value in demonstrating it was possible—if academia only develops things people will adapt commercially right away then we might as well dissolve academia. This is a highly interesting and potentially important problem, people should be excited.
Two, there would presumably at minimum be demand to give students (for example) access to a watermarked LLM, so they could benefit from it without being able to cheat. That’s even an academic motivation. And if the major labs won’t do it, someone can build a Llama version or what not for this, no?
If the academics can hack together an open source solution why haven’t they? Seems like it would be a highly cited, very popular paper. What’s the theory on why they don’t do it?
Just spitballing, but it doesn’t seem theoretically interesting to academics unless they’re bringing something novel (algorithmically or in design) to the table, and practically not useful unless implemented widely, since it’s trivial for e.g. college students to use the least watermarked model.
No one would use it if not forced to?
Two responses.
One, even if no one used it, there would still be value in demonstrating it was possible—if academia only develops things people will adapt commercially right away then we might as well dissolve academia. This is a highly interesting and potentially important problem, people should be excited.
Two, there would presumably at minimum be demand to give students (for example) access to a watermarked LLM, so they could benefit from it without being able to cheat. That’s even an academic motivation. And if the major labs won’t do it, someone can build a Llama version or what not for this, no?