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Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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I should publish a blog post titled "Using Antropic's Claude is a Perversion of Writing". If you are taking AI output and thinking it's good and engaging, you are making a load-bearing mistake.
Joking aside, the criticism can come only after they implement it and we can see if it's having any effect on the output quality. I doubt it's going to be detectably worse.
If anybody is feeling so strongly against watermarking even before we can evaluate how it affects the output, I am only thinking that they have ulterior motives or they don't want to be caught spreading copy-pasted slop.