I guess responses like yours is the reason the headline didn't mention the actual party gitlab is in talks with. People just love to have their villain.
Ignore the headline. Read the article. Gitlab is not about to sell to Google. They are about to sell to Datadog.
But they have been partially owned by Google for the past time, and the product has been great.
Google's involvement is only going to lessen, so the only reason to put so much emphasis on that in the headline would be to get those rage clicks.
Typical that the title does mention Google (who currently has a minority stake) but not Datadog, who would become the new owner.
But yeah, I don't foresee a new owner making things better for gitlab.
They could, but adding random zero width characters into words would also destroy ever spell checker, giving it away immediately and making sure that even unaware people would filter it. Doing it outside the words would leave them with too few spots to use for proper watermarking.
I think it's far more likely they'll use some kind of pattern in the tokens - that way the watermark will remain even when you don't copypaste it.
But yeah, as said, they will never tell how it's implemented, but it can still be simply subverted.
Yeah, no chance they'd rely on something that would be so easy to defeat. Watermarking by using word patterns is far more likely.
Still easy to defeat by just using another LLM to rephrase it though.
By that logic every news website is spam, because those also contain ads.
I agree the article is without much merit. But calling it spam because it also appears in a book and it mentions that source, is just diluting the term.
... And he doesn't exist.
This article could do with a Bottom Line Up Front. I got halfway through the page and I still had no idea what problem it was trying to solve by adding new problems.
Looked up her name on Twitter to see what people were saying about this
I'm seriously wondering what your intentions were when you did that.
Aka a junior.
Better yet, just spin up your own instance, subscribe to all major communities, and have the servers push the comments to yours. No scraping required, and nobody will ever find out it was you.
Statistically it's likely to have happened already.
Before welcoming this as good news, be aware that democrats might also start thinking this misinformation is real, and decide to stay home and "not vote for a losing team".