I love this theory. "We've invented a new invisible watermark that can detect whether code is LLM written."

The watermark: counting instances of 'load-bearing seam', 'the hard truth', 'and that's the whole point'.

If it's using Aaronson's approach it shouldn't have any noticeable affect on generations. When it picks between options weighted by probability after the generation of logits, it still follows the probability mass, it just uses a known pseudorandom seed so that when you go back and look at the exact choices you can fingerprint it.

I think opus was released before they included it on model. Its hard to say, but from what Ive read it doesn’t seem like it would have that drastic of an effect.

I had the same thought though.