The watermark doesn’t change the distribution, only per-token selection. I think not understanding that is the source of most people’s FUD.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's no difference between those two things. The distribution that matters is the distribution of tokens that are picked not the distribution of tokens the LLM model passed to the selector.

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cubefox 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This comment disagrees with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324387

	▲	beering 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That comment merely says quality must be compromised. It doesn’t make it clear why that must be true. Empirical study seems to say that quality is not compromised, and looking at various proposed schemes, it seems intuitively true.