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[–] 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

The very fact that Anthropic is now injecting a kind of watermark into every output, is solid proof that such a Ken Thompson hack is a inevetable risk

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Ugh. Fuck "AI" and fuck Anthropic. But please read how the "watermarks" work. TL;TR its like a seeded run in a video game. With the seed and pseudo rng, you get the outcome i.e. the extruded text. In the watermark its the reverse, outcome + prng = seed. The result will be the same "quality" extruded garbage as before.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    A bit of a late response, but why are they mutually exclusive? I get that the "seed" can be extracted if you check for it, but who says that seed can't be somrthing nefarious? Like, someone vibecodes a website. You visit the website, extract the seed and it shows you the complete userbase of that website.

    I'm just sptiballing here though. It might not be the best example. I get where you're coming from, but why we cant we both be right.

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