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

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They are probably working on a $500 subscription without watermarks. The majority of their users have an IQ below 100 and need the crutch.

It's not a case of needing a crutch. It's how you value your time. "Shall I spend 30 mins grammar checking this product marketing copy, or shall I get AI to do it while I start work coding a new feature?"

Is someone tasking you with proofing copy? And you're just feeding it into an AI?

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

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Based on Hacker News, other parts of the internet and even some job experience, I've come to the realization that many people legitimately have no idea that their pants are down and everything is on full display. If you thought you could have AI "reorganize a paragraph" and not have anyone know, you're probably wrong. You can't because Claude can't fucking write even a paragraph without ruining it half the time. But…

I had an experience like this writing a letter of recommendation. I wrote it, then fed it to an LLM to improve it. The result was markedly a step down, bland, average, and unimpressive. It's like it vacuumed the soul out of it.

I hope that if I ever ask for a letter of recommendation again that people will honestly tell me if they can't outperform an LLM when writing it.

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

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So we finally tackle the issue of ai-text pollution and probably found a way to clean up the internet (from now on), yet people start complaining that "their" output is marked as spam. Well, the solution is quite easy: start thinking on your own again and write the lines yourself. I welcome this watermarking. Finally it's an easy detectable signal that someone just generated some request/answer to waste my time by fo…

> Well, the solution is quite easy: start thinking on your own again and write the lines yourself.

Bingo. It makes people seem better than they are. They are building nothing. They are just ordering something. It's not impressive. I'm glad we can now easily tell the difference.

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

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So we finally tackle the issue of ai-text pollution and probably found a way to clean up the internet (from now on), yet people start complaining that "their" output is marked as spam. Well, the solution is quite easy: start thinking on your own again and write the lines yourself. I welcome this watermarking. Finally it's an easy detectable signal that someone just generated some request/answer to waste my time by fo…

Oh look, another anti ai sermonizing flame bait comment at the top of the hackernews comment section. That's so cool and insightful.

Sorry. We are tired of the slop.

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

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Oh look, another anti ai sermonizing flame bait comment at the top of the hackernews comment section. That's so cool and insightful.

Sorry. We are tired of the slop.

Are you actually sorry?

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

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Most vendors probably do it covertly, as watermarking is a tried and true method to defend intellectual property. I’m more interested in the motivations behind Anthropic admitting it publicly.

They just want to blame the EU for something did secretly the whole time. In fact as Google they watermark AI generated data to filter it out of their training sets.
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