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?
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?