The difference between auto-generating hundreds to thousands of words, versus having to manually read and type all of those words out yourself is very obviously a lot more than “nothing”.

And that’s not even taking into account the fact that we don’t know what their method of watermarking is. From how they’re talking it sounds like it will be algorithmically embedded in the text itself somehow, through specific choices of words or something similar. If that’s the case, typing it out word for word will retain the watermark.

I read the first 2 sentences and now I have cancer.

Ah true, I forgot about the console.

I don’t think they give a shit about people emulating their old classic games, they have modern games.

Kinda my own arse?

Correct.

this feels like something so obvious I’d think studies likely show this

Surprisingly unscientific attitude from a scifi author.

Sources?