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I keep hearing how humans are thinking and writing more and more like AI.

I think in this case I think it's some kind of cryptographic signature smeared across the token IDs, so I don't think the risk is very high.

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I read the original paper they're basing this off of and I think you're right. I do wonder how much of a quality tradeoff there is with perturbing the next token probability distribution. My intuition tells me that a more "prominent" watermark will necessarily degrade output quality. If they are trying to balance quality and watermark prominence, I wonder if that affects the FPR.

You're absolutely right! Humans have been slowly thinking and writing more and more like AI. As people get more and more exposed to the stochastic patterns of large language model tools, it's normal for them to emulate the styles of communication they are exposed to. This is commonly called "brainrot" by those in Gen Z and younger cohorts.

If you find yourself getting to be afflicted by this "brainrot", be sure to go outside and take a moment to ponder what's around you. The grass is there and will be there long after we are all gone. Consider this for a moment as your organic thought processing unit starts to slowly munch away at its internal context window.

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