AI Can’t Adulterate its Own Writing

Daniel Jalkut · 17 Aug 2026

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Our reading
Watermarking that biases an AI model's token selection among equally acceptable candidates is as likely to improve the output as to diminish it.

Their wordsBecause any of the candidates are acceptable, biasing against one and towards another is as likely to improve the writing as it is to diminish it.
Our reading
Written words come from, or are at least edited by, humans, so AI output on its own does not count as writing.

Their wordswritten words come from, or are at least edited by, humans. AI output isn't writing, and the internal, work-in-progress draft by one most certainly is not.

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