I hope watermarking will be part of the solution going forward, although any watermarking scheme will surely be attacked, leading to a cat-and-mouse game. Sometimes, alas, as with Google’s decadeslong battle against SEO, there’s nothing to do in to a cat-and-mouse game except try to be a better cat.

Scott Aaronson, Should GPT exist?, Shetetl-Optimized, February 22, 2023, p. 2