I agree with you completely. In the wild, there are too many variables to use watermarking to draw meaningful conclusions about any piece of text, no matter th

I agree with you completely. In the wild, there are too many variables to use watermarking to draw meaningful conclusions about any piece of text, no matter the word count. Scott Aaronson described well one of those variables, "the pineapple attack," in his Aug. 2023 talk at Simons [1]. Watermarking is illuminating to the ongoing study of language models' functionality, but it doesn't put the genie back in the bottle. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kx9jbSMZqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kx9jbSMZqA