Yeah, but it's better than nothing.
People underestimate the value of rules that only take malice and a little knowledge to break.
And they tend to exaggerate that underestimation if they... don't like the rule.
People underestimate the value of rules that only take malice and a little knowledge to break.
And they tend to exaggerate that underestimation if they... don't like the rule.
Most people are generally lazy. They upload text to LinkedIn full of "genuine", "honest" and "load-bearing".
And the people who get LLMs to make content for them are often the laziest of us all! Some people can’t even be bothered to remove their prompt from the output. Or they submit work which ends with “is there anything else you want to know about ___?”
Go ahead. Make tools to rip off the llm stenography. Many of the people who would proactively use tools like that are writing content by hand anyway.
Yes, this watermark will be easy to strip. It is still valuable for the vast majority of times where people just don't.
Of course I would want my code formatting tool to normalize that all to plain 0x20 spaces. But it would still be a helpful "brown M&M" test of did you even read CONTRIBUTING and run the code formatter before submitting this PR?