John Gruber calls Claude's AI watermarking 'patently offensive'
Anthropic is adding a watermark to its LLM outputs to comply with new EU AI rules.Tech blogger John Gruber isn't sold on their approach.In a Sunday blog post, he called the new watermark a "perversion of writing."Tech blogger John Gruber is joining the chorus of dissent over Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude's writing.On Sunday, Gruber, the popular blogger who writes Daring Fireball, called watermarking plans a "perversion of writing."His main criticism: Claude should choose words because they're best for the user, not because they help make the output detectable."The exact words we choose when writing matter. I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point.
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Anthropic is adding a watermark to its LLM outputs to comply with new EU AI rules.Tech blogger John Gruber isn't sold on their approach.In a Sunday blog post, he called the new watermark a "perversion of writing."Tech blogger John Gruber is joining the chorus of dissent over Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude's writing.On Sunday, Gruber, the popular blogger who writes Daring Fireball, called watermarking plans a "perversion of writing."His main criticism: Claude should choose words because they're best for the user, not because they help make the output detectable."The exact words we choose when writing matter. I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point. An obvious constraint that I accept is time and computation. Within the constraint of executing inference quickly, and at a certain cost per token, I want the best words.
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- Anthropic is adding a watermark to its LLM outputs to comply with new EU AI rules.Tech blogger John Gruber isn't sold on their approach.In a Sunday blog post, he called the new watermark a "perversion of writing."Tech blogger John Gruber is joining the chorus of dissent over Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude's writing.On Sunday, Gruber, the popular blogger who writes Daring Fireball, called watermarking plans a "perversion of writing."His main criticism: Claude should choose words because they're best for the user, not because they help make the output detectable."The exact words we choose when writing matter. I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point.
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John Gruber calls Claude's AI watermarking 'patently offensive'
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