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‘Anthropic’s Weak Watermarks Appease a Weak Law’

James Padolsey, on the Claude-text-watermarking-to-comply-with-an-EU-regulation imbroglio: The same thought that led to this law could have applied to calculators at the time of their inception, had…

  • Anthropic's regulation aims to differentiate AI-generated from human text.
  • Blanket watermarking may label harmless users as potentially deceptive.
  • Users argue regulation is misguided and risks diminishing its purpose.

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