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AI text watermarking and quality loss

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With the EU AI Act pushing major AI labs to watermark their text output, debate has grown over whether watermarking hurts text quality. While labs claim quality is preserved, their own research admits watermarking reduces diversity across multiple responses, meaning users get fewer creative options when retrying prompts or testing for hallucinations. This hidden limitation was never directly tested with human evaluators.

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