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Hmmm you'd think one would not use claude to do writing in the first place if one was bothered by "perversions of writing", and this whole argument is just in bad faith
Sounds like someone wants to pass slop off as their own work product.
If they aren't heavily editing, the text will be full of tells anyway. I don't think anyone is passing slop off as their own for long. They either use it a little bit and edit it enough to obliterate any markers and tells (which is fine, imo), or they are going to be discovered.
The idea that anything other than my needs should factor into the generation of text for me is patently offensive.
Primary reason I'm not using any hosted LLMs is I can't stand and don't want to start relying on tools that can be stealthily enshittified or made an advertising tool.
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.
Wait until they learn that every human writer has their profile based on what words they use and how.
