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Why Joe Biden's plan to 'watermark' AI-generated content may be next to impossible
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Yes, we want to be able to use AI to solve some of our society's greatest challenges. But the goal of 'watermarking' AI content will be challenging and difficult.
Jeremy Straub is an associate professor in the North Dakota State University Computer Science Department, a Challey Institute faculty fellow, and the director of the NDSU Institute for Cyber Security Education and Research.
Watermarking is inherently tricky, and the techniques vary by medium. In many cases, they rely on a shared secret, such as a textual pattern, list of special words, or watermarking location or pattern in a file, between the developer and those who make tools to detect the developer’s watermark.
If this secret becomes more widely known, either due to a leak or it being reverse-engineered, AI users who wish to remove the watermark can readily do so.