Guillaume Meyer

Guillaume Meyer (Memo): Why He's Fighting AI Watermarking

Guillaume Meyer, Memo's co-founder and CTO, explains he built his watermark-removal tool in five hours after reading Anthropic's watermarking research, and it has since grown from 4,000 to 15,000 GitHub stars. He argues watermarking is unreliable and creates false positives — Grammarly's LLM-assisted proofreading of his non-native English would get his writing flagged — treats authorship as binary in practice, and that invisible watermarks leave users no control if governments pressure vendors. He contrasts the EU AI Act's narrower labeling requirements with Anthropic's blanket global rollout, floats making distillation harder as a possible motive, and describes hundreds of community contributors, per-vendor adjustments, the project's MIT license and possible commercialization.

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