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Re: Check if a file was made with Claude

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A watermark answers "did this model touch the file?" It doesn't answer "did a person read it and stand behind it?"

Detection will get gamed, and a lot of useful text is already mixed. The more useful check, for me, is still human: would I put my name on this before it goes out?

Re: Check if a file was made with Claude

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Claude watermarks are a farce and a waste of time. It's hilarious to me that they burn cash to even entertain the idea.

Any attempts they use are defeated by a text editor and CTRL SHIFT V. Unicode characters are no new thing.

Reminds me of how people tried to argue that NFTs aren't anything more than just jpegs.

Re: Check if a file was made with Claude

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How long before they change the terms and conditions to subtly claim ownership of your files? When you write code they already insert Co author attribution/

Say I write a text by hand And then I tell it to clean up the grammar and fix some sentences Did it make it?

This is also interesting for those companies that siphoned the entire open web

Re: Check if a file was made with Claude

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Claude watermarks are a farce and a waste of time. It's hilarious to me that they burn cash to even entertain the idea. Any attempts they use are defeated by a text editor and CTRL SHIFT V. Unicode characters are no new thing. Reminds me of how people tried to argue that NFTs aren't anything more than just jpegs.

You misunderstand how Claude watermarks things.

Re: Check if a file was made with Claude

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post #2

A watermark answers "did this model touch the file?" It doesn't answer "did a person read it and stand behind it?" Detection will get gamed, and a lot of useful text is already mixed. The more useful check, for me, is still human: would I put my name on this before it goes out?

this is going to be the big thing in the next 100 years for me. where there is a human, there will be context, passion and meaning. it's the old saying: machine can tell you what, but only humans can tell you why.

Re: Check if a file was made with Claude

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post #6

Claude watermarks are a farce and a waste of time. It's hilarious to me that they burn cash to even entertain the idea. Any attempts they use are defeated by a text editor and CTRL SHIFT V. Unicode characters are no new thing. Reminds me of how people tried to argue that NFTs aren't anything more than just jpegs.

You misunderstand how Claude watermarks things.

Yes, but I also think it will be trivially by-passable if you pass your output through another LLM. At least for text.

It might help catch students cheating, but not real spam-bot usage. As soon as platforms start checking for watermarks spambots will add anti-watermark passes.

Re: Check if a file was made with Claude

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post #6

Claude watermarks are a farce and a waste of time. It's hilarious to me that they burn cash to even entertain the idea. Any attempts they use are defeated by a text editor and CTRL SHIFT V. Unicode characters are no new thing. Reminds me of how people tried to argue that NFTs aren't anything more than just jpegs.

You misunderstand how Claude watermarks things.

Imagine telling someone they're wrong without providing any evidence or context.
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