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Why would you want to watermark your content - generally watermarks are used to provide legal proof of provenance which can be important when suing someone for
by bryanrasmussen 3y ago
Why would you want to watermark your content - generally watermarks are used to provide legal proof of provenance which can be important when suing someone for stealing your content but since machine learning outputs cannot be copyrighted this use is not important.
- lilyball 3y agoOne pretty useful reason would be to then eliminate that content from subsequent training data, so you're not training the next model on the previous model's output.
- justahuman74 3y ago> machine learning outputs cannot be copyrighted I don't believe this in practice, a person will just say that they did it rather than the AI
- sdtriton 3y agoThe purpose is to detect if text was written by ChatGPT, so a university could check whether an essay is LLM generated, social media company could detect LLM spam, etc.
- flangola7 3y ago>since machine learning outputs cannot be copyrighted This is very much unexplored and unsettled territory in most jurisdictions, both judicially and legislatively. I would refrain from making such authoritative statements for now.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoI guess you're right, although I do expect most jurisdictions to fall in line with the US copyright office ruling, as it would be problematic if they did not.
- EMM_386 3y agoLots of reasons watermarks would be useful if they could be detected. Cheating on essays, bots spamming AI generated content all over the web, StackOverflow submissions can be instantly rejected, propaganda identified, etc.