AI companies are asking their employees to flag AI writing — and one wants a steak emoji

AI companies are facing a dilemma as employees increasingly rely on chatbot responses, leading to concerns about originality and responsibility. Startups Clay and Figma have revealed their respective AI writing policies, with Clay asking employees to flag non-human work using a steak emoji. Varun Anand, Clay's cofounder, explained in an X post that it is the employee's responsibility to ensure the document reflects their own thoughts, and that simply attributing AI-written content to a "meat proxy" is unacceptable.

Adhering to similar policies, Figma CEO Dylan Field mandates the inclusion of "written with AI" at the beginning of any AI-assisted writings. In contrast, Exa, an AI research lab, has banned AI-generated content in external communications, insisting on handwritten submissions. Some companies are turning to AI watermarking as a means of transparency, such as Anthropic's integration of imperceptible watermarks in Claude model-generated text.