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Watermarking should be a monitoring primitive, paper argues

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A new paper proposes treating watermarking not just as a method to detect synthetic content, but as a primitive for monitoring generative models. The authors argue that watermarks can be used to attribute outputs to specific entities, even with zero-bit watermarks, by managing detector access and key bindings. They call for evaluations to report on attribution and identification accuracy alongside robustness, and for governance to restrict these bindings and detector access. AI

IMPACT Proposes a new framework for evaluating and governing AI model watermarking, focusing on attribution and monitoring capabilities.

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Watermarking should be a monitoring primitive, paper argues

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Toluwani Aremu, Jie Zhang, Nils Lukas ·

    Watermarking Should Be Treated as a Monitoring Primitive

    arXiv:2605.13095v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Watermarking is a primary means for providers of generative models to meet legal requirements to mark synthetic content. A watermark embeds a hidden signal into generated content that a detector holding a secret key can la…

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