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It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthro…

The argument about watermarking doesn’t make sense. LLM’s already don’t select the “best” or “most precise” next token by design! The token is sampled randomly from a distribution. This simply changes the distribution, but it’s misguided to believe that there exists an “optimal” distribution.

Well ackchually you can play with temperature, lower temperature = actually pick the highest probability token virtually every time. But there's a reason LLMs don't run with temperature 0. A writer would surely hate the output of such an LLM.

So you agree they play with temperature to increase the overall quality of the output?