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 (2 replies)

Users: pay an oligopolist money.

Oligopolist: kills competition, enshittifies the product

Users: surprised pikachu

deadcream@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 18d (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

‘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 (1 reply)

And why are they mad?

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d

Because they get caught cheating.

siravious@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 18d (1 reply)
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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'