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You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI

Software engineer Sean Goedecke argues that the European Union's watermark rule for AI-generated text, mandated by the EU AI Act, is ineffective because users can easily remove watermarks by asking a second AI to rewrite the content. The EU AI Act requires AI outputs to be 'detectable as artificially generated' and embedded in a way that is difficult to separate from the content, but Goedecke demonstrates that this requirement is trivial to bypass.

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The EU AI Act AI outputs to be "detectable as artificially generated" and "embedded within the content in a manner that is difficult for it to be separated from the content."

But Sean Goedecke, a software engineer, explains why the European Union's new watermark rule for AI text won't work. — Read the rest

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