I consider watermarking a lost cause. Trying to imitate humans as best as possible conflicts with trying to distinguish AI- from human-generated output. The task is impossible in the limit. If somebody wants to avoid watermarking, they can always use an open-source model (e.g. to paraphrase the watermarked content).
Digitally signing content can be used to track the origin of that content (but not the tools used to create it). We could have something like a global distributed database indicating the origin of content and everybody can decide what to trust based on that origin. This does not achieve what watermarking is trying to do but I belive this is the best we can do.
As some develop watermarking techniques others are looking for ways to circumvent them. This is an arms-race-like dynamics which just leads to waste of reources. People working on watermarking could probably contribute on something that can have actual benefit instead.
I consider watermarking a lost cause. Trying to imitate humans as best as possible conflicts with trying to distinguish AI- from human-generated output. The task is impossible in the limit. If somebody wants to avoid watermarking, they can always use an open-source model (e.g. to paraphrase the watermarked content).
Digitally signing content can be used to track the origin of that content (but not the tools used to create it). We could have something like a global distributed database indicating the origin of content and everybody can decide what to trust based on that origin. This does not achieve what watermarking is trying to do but I belive this is the best we can do.
As some develop watermarking techniques others are looking for ways to circumvent them. This is an arms-race-like dynamics which just leads to waste of reources. People working on watermarking could probably contribute on something that can have actual benefit instead.