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My guess is it will be similar to how Genius watermarked lyrics, using things like variants of punctuation

https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-hande...

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In program code? Unlikely, surely¡

That was actually the cause of an issue I had a couple of years ago: I had hand-typed JSON using my iPad into GitHub’s online text editor and Safari helpfully used “pretentious quotes” instead of "old-school quotes" - and the JSON library used by the program to read that file had relaxed parsing rules that accepted actual JS object literals without quoted property names; so the fancy-quotes were interpreted as part of the key-names. This took ages to figure out because when human-eyeballing the JSON file it looked perfectly fine in Notepad.

I don’t doubt your experience, but many people are intimately aware of the use of proper Unicode quote characters, in any reasonable font they choose. For me, one of the first things I learned when using LaTeX is how the quotes are transformed from the source to the typeset document; since then I’ve become extremely sensitive to the kind of quotes I see.

Consider these naming options:

> total = calculate(items)

> result = calculate(items)

> value = calculate(items)

> amount = calculate(items)

All of them are reasonable options. If we bias the model's output so that one of them is more likely than the others, then we can reconstruct that watermark if enough of these frames are present.

Would that be partly affected by shifting/rotating keys?

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