Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-ai-watermarks/

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Marija@programming.dev · 1 pts · 36d

Watermarks fail. PersonalIP survives.

Corbin@programming.dev · 1 pts · 36d

The author's relevant experience is in developing Copilot, not in information theory or statistics. So, when they say:

Unlike image and video watermarks, text watermarks will always be trivial to remove.

This is wrong; image and video watermarks are also trivial to destroy. In general, watermarking only works for physical objects and fails for information-theoretic objects.