In a blog post on Friday, Anthropic elaborated on its controversial watermarking system, announced earlier this week as an effort to comply with the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act. Watermarking will make it harder for users to get away with pretending they wrote AI-generated text. It may be too late to preserve Anthropic’s relationships with some outraged users, who have, it appears, already canceled their subscriptions. Posts on X show many supposed paying Claude users claiming to have cut off ties. Math and AI influencer John Ennis is one. He posted a screenshot of his cancellation Saturday, and cited Anthropic’s “ridiculous watermark idea” as a cause. There are countless other X users claiming to have canceled because of watermarking. “This is bullsh*t” wrote one. Another called Anthropic the r-slur in response to one of its X posts about watermarking. “Why should I, being a non EU citizen watermark my work generated by a paid subscription of Claude?” asks another. Anthropic’s explanation does make fascinating reading if you’re not a cryptographer, and you imagined that the only way to watermark text is by, for instance, crudely replacing certain instances of “S” w
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Assuming your device is new enough to use it. Siri has been around since 2011, and for most of that time it's lagged behind assistants from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. iOS 27 is Apple's attempt to close that gap, rebuilding the assistant…
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Assuming your device is new enough to use it. Siri has been around since 2011, and for most of that time it's lagged behind assistants from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. iOS 27 is Apple's attempt to close that gap,…
Read original at Engadget →For people who still care whether a bit of writing came from a machine or from a human brain, itâs harder and harder to tell the difference. Many people are quite bad at writing. AI models, meanwhile, have advanced to…
Read original at CNN →The answer is where you least expect it. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Last week, Anthropic announced it would start watermarking text output from several of its LLMs via Claude to comply with…
Read original at ZDNet →Anthropic has begun building a watermark into text generated by future Claude models, a change the company says is meant to help identify whether a given piece of writing was likely produced by its AI. This new feature,…
Read original at Mashable →In a blog post on Friday, Anthropic elaborated on its controversial watermarking system, announced earlier this week as an effort to comply with the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act. Watermarking will make…
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Assuming your device is new enough to use it. Siri has been around since 2011, and for most of that time it's lagged behind assistants from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. iOS 27 is Apple's attempt to close that gap, rebuilding the assistant…
View source →For people who still care whether a bit of writing came from a machine or from a human brain, it’s harder and harder to tell the difference. Many people are quite bad at writing. AI models, meanwhile, have advanced to the point of…
View source →The answer is where you least expect it. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Last week, Anthropic announced it would start watermarking text output from several of its LLMs via Claude to comply with Article 50 of the EU…
View source →Anthropic has begun building a watermark into text generated by future Claude models, a change the company says is meant to help identify whether a given piece of writing was likely produced by its AI. This new feature, implemented to…
View source →In a blog post on Friday, Anthropic elaborated on its controversial watermarking system, announced earlier this week as an effort to comply with the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act. Watermarking will make it harder for users…
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