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BREAKING: Anthropic shuts down consuela's substack (link)
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:09 PM Author: Nighttime weed whacker https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content
Anthropic says new Claude models will embed invisible watermarks in all generated text, everywhere Claude is offered.
The watermark is part of the text, it isn't metadata: "it will travel with the text when it's copied and pasted elsewhere, and may persist through some editing."
This starts with models launched on or after August 2, 2026, under an EU AI Act code Anthropic signed. Anthropic is still working on adding it to current models. The rollout is worldwide. |
Date: August 10th, 2026 4:11 PM Author: sepia exhilarant dopamine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058419) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:12 PM Author: Confused senate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058422) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:14 PM Author: swashbuckling field jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058426) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:16 PM Author: high-end friendly grandma locale LOL @ the EU.
OI M8 U GOT A LOISSENCE FOR THAT AI SLOP? |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:18 PM Author: Nighttime weed whacker i actually think this is pretty cr
it's not a perfect "solution" by any means but it will be a net improvement compared to not having it |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:19 PM Author: Frum Hospital (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058438) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:24 PM Author: high-end friendly grandma locale Seems like the lib instinct to "do something" even if it's just performative. All people need to do is figure out how the watermark is embedded into the text and then change a couple words. Meanwhile, over time these "can't hurt, why not?" type laws increase compliance costs makes everything more expensive and harder to compete internationally. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058460) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: Nudist personal credit line dragon lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058445) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:19 PM Author: Vibrant Abusive Kitchen lmao @ anyone using American AI, time to switch to Chinese LLMs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058439) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: Nudist personal credit line dragon I don't think open ai is retarded enough to do this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058444) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:22 PM Author: Confused senate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058449) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 5:37 PM Author: Nighttime weed whacker they will follow suit imo. they'll have to (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058708) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:20 PM Author: Nudist personal credit line dragon Open AI has researched this exact kind of statistical token based "watermarking" and decided not to use it because there are too many major drawbacks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058441) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: Nighttime weed whacker those "drawbacks" in question?
being at a market disadvantage compared to your competitors who don't implement the watermark |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:27 PM Author: Nudist personal credit line dragon You know how it says in this article it doesn't rely on metadata? It's because the way that it works is they put in an algorithmic bias toward selecting certain tokens at certain spots that supposedly don't change the meaning of the output, and that makes it traceable as coming from that model. But if you rewrite parts of it or put it through a translator and back it destroys it. Another thing is they were worried it would have a DITHPARTE IMPACT on ESL speakers who can't desloppify AI outputs well. I'm sure they also considered that people won't want to use it anymore if they know its easily traced from claude. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058474) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:30 PM Author: Nighttime weed whacker yeah there are plenty of issues with it
it was still a funny joke and also just a fact that the competitive disadvantage is by far the most important consideration in play here |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:32 PM Author: Confused senate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058489) |
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Date: August 10th, 2026 4:22 PM Author: Confused senate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5891475&forum_id=2phpsessid=49d358651c#50058451) |