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There are multiple major flaws with watermarks for texts:

  1. Their method only works for longer texts as it relies on statistical effects that aren't clear enough to detect in a very short text.
  2. They are resting their approach on an incorrect assumption: their models prefer certain words and if they appear more frequently than in a random text, they assume it's generate by their model. But who says texts are random? Out of billions of people there will be some who have a similar preference for some words and their texts will always be wrongfully accused of AI-generated just because they happen to have a similar word choice preference. The shorter the texts the likelier that issue becomes.
  3. There will soon be tools that replace a random amount of words with synonyms automatically and therefore remove any chances of detecting the watermark.
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