Reconciling Privacy with Provenance for Language Model Watermarks
Researchers tackle the conflict between LLM watermarking for provenance tracking and user privacy, proposing schemes that could help satisfy EU AI Act transparency goals without GDPR friction.
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arXiv:2611.06100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Watermarking has great potential for regulating the use of language models (LMs), but its deployment has been marred by controversy, as many users argue that fine-grained tracking of LM usage violates their privacy. This tension reduces the effectiveness of watermarks, as users engage in evasion strategies such as paraphrasing that can remove much of the watermark signal. We show that provenance and privacy can be reconciled if we shift the goal o
Editorial Analysis
As the EU AI Act mandates AI-output provenance, enterprises need watermarking approaches that do not create new GDPR liabilities — this research explores that design space.
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