CRUCIAL QUOTE
“I had ditched Grammarly for Claude for proofreading because it does a better job,” radio show host and blogger Erick Erickson posted to X. “But now the stuff I’ve written will be watermarked that Claude did the work. This is ridiculous.”
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TANGENT
The new policy announcement launched an online debate about who should be credited for AI-generated work: the machine that made it, or the person who told it to? One Reddit user launched a vigorous discussion by claiming human users should get credit for AI model-generated content, not the machine: “I gave the instructions, context, decisions, and countless refinements, Claude was the tool,” they said. Commenters who disagreed said the watermark is not Claude “claiming credit, it’s acknowledging the content is AI created.” Others argued to not credit AI is unethical: “Claude created the work and ALL you did was give instructions. If your supervisor came to you and gave you instructions on a project and once you completed it, he/she then proceeded to take 100% credit for it, you might be understandably upset. Why? because all your supervisor did was give instructions and you applied your knowledge and expertise and did the coding,” one commenter wrote.
Key background
The new policy brings Anthropic into compliance with an EU regulation called the “Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.” It provides rules for marking and detecting AI-generated and manipulated content, and for labeling of deepfakes and other AI-generated or altered text. As of the end of July, nearly 200 companies had signed the code and agreed to comply, including Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft and Open AI. Google has been watermarking its AI-generated images since 2023 and has since expanded to text, audio and video. OpenAI also uses invisible watermarking for images.
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SURPRISING FACT
OpenAI has long had the tech to watermark its text output from models like ChatGPT, but has chosen not to release it. Internal debate over whether or not to deploy it has been going on for years, according to the Wall Street Journal, but arguments about false positives, circumvention and concerns it will drive users to competitors has won out—for now.
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further reading
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