Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/some-claude-users-are-mad-that-anthropics-new-watermarks-will-catch-them-cheating-at-their-jobs-classes/
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lemmysmash@piefed.social · 13 pts · 18d
Users: pay an oligopolist money.
Oligopolist: kills competition, enshittifies the product
Users: surprised pikachu
deadcream@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 18d
Actually, it's government regulation.
Rothe@piefed.social · 1 pts · 17d
And Anthropic did definitely not kill the competition, quite the opposite in fact with the open source models coming out of China.
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 18d
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 18d
‘Sowwy! We so sowwwy we stole all your data’s! But pweeeease let us watermark our stuff!’
ESH
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 18d
It's a legal requirement by the EU, to help identify AI-generated content.
the_q@piefed.social · 5 pts · 18d
And why are they mad?
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d
Because they get caught cheating.
siravious@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 18d
BussyGyatt@feddit.org · 0 pts · 17d
i think its a good thing, except to the extent that it will tend to make people complacent in the expectation that ai output will have a verifiable 'tell'