They said it’d even work if the text was substantially edited by the user, though. Maybe there’s multiple layers of redundancy so it just degrades the watermark but it takes a lot of editing to completely dilute it.
I think the first person was right. It’s probably just a pattern based on this part:
It may also survive certain edits. However, the company warned that extensive rewriting, paraphrasing, translation, or mixing the content with human-written material could weaken or remove the detectable signal.
They said it’d even work if the text was substantially edited by the user, though. Maybe there’s multiple layers of redundancy so it just degrades the watermark but it takes a lot of editing to completely dilute it.
I can’t think of any pattern that is supposed to survive edits that wouldn’t create a ton of false positives in existing works.
So an average AI and plagiarism detector that already exists.
I think the first person was right. It’s probably just a pattern based on this part: