How to avoid Claude watermarking your content

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ZDNET's key takeaways

  • New watermarks on Claude content are upsetting some people.
  • Reactions reveal company priorities and human over-reliance on AI tools.
  • To avoid possible watermarks, write it yourself (sorry!).

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 AI Act, which requires participating AI companies to provide transparency tools for AI-generated content. Public outrage at the watermarks multiplied as fast as the many watermark-removal tools now populating GitHub.

For those who didn't take kindly to the news, the solution seems obvious: find a way to avoid taking watermarks with you out of Claude. But, just like the many re-"humanizing" writing pluginsnow clogging app stores everywhere, turning to yet another fixer likely won't get us anywhere. A bigger-picture reset on our expectations...

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