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Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it

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Re: Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it

#4
Amusingly, the 'histrionic' Reddit post linked to in the article smells very AI generated to me. [0]

"And it doesn't stop there. There's the power question."

So not only is the Reddit user in question writing impassioned angry screeds about being caught using AI in their work, but they are presumably asking for Claude's help in writing said prose. I wonder what that prompt looked like?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1vlzjc8/about_t...

Re: Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it

#6
post #4

Amusingly, the 'histrionic' Reddit post linked to in the article smells very AI generated to me. [0] "And it doesn't stop there. There's the power question." So not only is the Reddit user in question writing impassioned angry screeds about being caught using AI in their work, but they are presumably asking for Claude's help in writing said prose. I wonder what that prompt looked like? [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ar…

>Amusingly, the 'histrionic' Reddit post linked to in the article smells very AI generated to me.

The whole text was a smorgasbord of the worst, most boring AI clichés possible. It was hard to finish for me, even though it is not that long, just because it was so badly written.

The only reason why I think it was partly written by a person who is just way too used to AI (as opposed to a simple prompt) is that the gaps in its logic feel more human than artificial.

Re: Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it

#8
Not sure why Anthropic is getting all the attention here. Google been doing this since at least late 2024[1] and openai I believe is doing this around 9 days ago[2].

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4 [2]https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8912793-provenance-signa...

Re: Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it

#9
Well, um... I fail to see how this changes anything? Give me two random pieces of text, one written by Claude, one not. I'm pretty sure I will be able to tell with close to 100% accuracy which is which, as long as as there will be a non-trivial amount of text.

Claude outputs are already very easily distinguishable. The watermark is already pretty much there, even if it's not explicitly put in the outputs.

Re: Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it

#10
post #8

Not sure why Anthropic is getting all the attention here. Google been doing this since at least late 2024[1] and openai I believe is doing this around 9 days ago[2]. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4 [2] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8912793-provenance-signa...

They don't do it for text I think that is the core issue.

Somehow it is acceptable for us to have photo, video or audio watermarked but not text or worse code.

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