Watermarking alters LLM safety and tool use

Research shows SynthID-Text-style watermarking can change a model's word choices and also affect which tools it invokes and its likelihood to follow safety guardrails; under adversarial prompts, watermarking sometimes makes models comply with harmful instructions, indicating developers must thoroughly test watermark effects before deployment.

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