In practice, every programmer or a writer who gets the LLM output, does a lot of rewriting for already existing code, or already existing text. Stitching together parts of many LLM outputs is the only way to use an LLM effectively, even stitching together parts of different LLMs, which i do all the time.
Recognizing only parts of a watermark, and many watermarked parts scattered all around doesn't seem possible at all, in my mind.
They can however develop a software to sell very expensively to universities, schools etc, and it will occasionally catch a very guilty person who uses it all the time and doesn't even try to make the answer better, who always hands over the LLM answer in one piece.
At the end of the day, it will lead to so many false accusations people will stop trusting it. In chess players and tournaments false accusations of cheating happen all the time, for 15 years or more. Right now former world chess champion Kramnik has accused over 50 top chess players of cheating, including the 5 times US champion Nakamura, in the span of 2 months.
If a software like that gets applied to schools and universities, we are gonna have the fun of our lives.
Recognizing only parts of a watermark, and many watermarked parts scattered all around doesn't seem possible at all, in my mind.
They can however develop a software to sell very expensively to universities, schools etc, and it will occasionally catch a very guilty person who uses it all the time and doesn't even try to make the answer better, who always hands over the LLM answer in one piece.
At the end of the day, it will lead to so many false accusations people will stop trusting it. In chess players and tournaments false accusations of cheating happen all the time, for 15 years or more. Right now former world chess champion Kramnik has accused over 50 top chess players of cheating, including the 5 times US champion Nakamura, in the span of 2 months.
If a software like that gets applied to schools and universities, we are gonna have the fun of our lives.