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These are services, so "how would <x> do this today?" is irrelevant.

The real question is: "What can manipulation of pseudo-random number generation do?"

We know that in the cryptographic world, attacking "randomness" is a key offensive capability. It will be here as well -- if Anthropic can watermark text as generated it's LLM, will it be able to watermark outputs as generated by "Spooky23/FooCorp"? Can I pay Anthropic to steer inquiries in a way that benefits my company or governemnt?

Pseudo-random to the end user appears random. Most treat it like a random chance. It is not.



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