I find the watermarking dynamic to be really interesting in the legal space, as more large model providers provide increasingly powerful legal capabilities, and adoption (presumably) also increases. Attorneys aren’t the same as developers as their work can be traced back to them, and there are personal bar licenses and reputations at stake. I wonder if knowing the likelihood that AI generated something helps or hurts in that respect.

I also see a lot of watermark removal services popping up as a result.

Watermarking is just one step. We could easily see regulatory crackdown, and the requirement to provide IE a whitelisted email to use a legal product.