@NickADobos: Anthropic’s response to watermarks confirmed my worst fears. “Our watermarking method doesn’t have any practical impact…

Anthropic’s response to watermarks confirmed my worst fears.

“Our watermarking method doesn’t have any practical impact on the quality or content”

That is a lie.

They literally say they change the wording in the first paragraph

Anyone with an ounce of common sense about how psychology, writing, and legal documents works in the real world, knows this completely changes the meaning and content. This degrades and changes petulance.

Look at the example they picked, it’s garbage. “Overcast” vs “grey” are completely different descriptions. That’s their best example, and it changes the sentence subtly yet dramatically.

This is unbelievably dangerous This will kill people I am not exaggerating

Anthropic just handed the keys to mind control the government

They just gave politicians a fully legal back door that can be exploited to influence claude’s thinking to mind control millions of people without anyone ever knowing

This is not okay.

Anthropic (@AnthropicAI): We’ve written an FAQ to answer some of the questions we’ve received about watermarking.

In summary:

• We’re implementing watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act. Other major model developers have signed the same Code of Practice and will also be implementing watermarking;