My problem is more the general idea that nowadays the tech is hostile to the user. Before when you paid for something, it was fully yours to use in a good or in a bad way.
Imagine for example, that in the future and with improved tech, manufacturer of knifes were to embed a gps chip in all knifes sold because it might be used for dangerous things.
The worse in all of that being that the big tech does it based on their own "moral" compass and not based on a legal requirement.
Regarding the watermark, that is also applying to generated text in theory, imagine that you ask ai to refactor a job application letter or a letter to your landlord, and that Google will snitch you with watermark that you used AI for that.
Imagine for example, that in the future and with improved tech, manufacturer of knifes were to embed a gps chip in all knifes sold because it might be used for dangerous things.
The worse in all of that being that the big tech does it based on their own "moral" compass and not based on a legal requirement.
Regarding the watermark, that is also applying to generated text in theory, imagine that you ask ai to refactor a job application letter or a letter to your landlord, and that Google will snitch you with watermark that you used AI for that.