LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used

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SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.

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2026-09-17 18:33 · Ars Technica AI
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used

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