“My initial speculation was that maybe they’d hide invisible non-printing Unicode characters in the text. Just spitballing. Turns out that’s not what they’re going to do. What they’re going to do is apply a form of steganography, where the choice of words (or other token output) at inference time will leave fingerprints that can later, maybe, be detected probabilistically.”
—Daring Fireball (Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing)
| Verb spitball | |
| : to propose (ideas, suggestions, etc.) for consideration in an informal, preliminary way “Writers spitballed story ideas; editors dreamed up coverage …” | |
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