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paperAugust 2026Unreviewed

From Forensics to Ecosystems: Rethinking Watermarks for Generative AI Oversight

Daniel Susser, John Thickstun, Gili Vidan

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Abstract

The arrival of generative AI as a cheap, widely accessible commercial service, and the tidal wave of AI-generated synthetic content it has unleashed, have provoked deep epistemic and social anxieties and raised difficult governance questions that policymakers are struggling to address. One approach that has attracted both enthusiasm from regulators and skepticism from researchers is digital watermarking. Signals embedded in a synthetically-generated piece of content indicating that it was AI-gen

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@misc{susser2026from,
  title = {{From Forensics to Ecosystems: Rethinking Watermarks for Generative AI Oversight}},
  author = {Daniel Susser and John Thickstun and Gili Vidan},
  year = {2026},
  month = aug,
  eprint = {2608.07337},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4cc1dd3b77617cf5304e9c05b428d788bc7651e5}
}