Mid-Week Meltdown - what this wordcel thinks about AI watermarking

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Apparently, Shakespeare didn’t say that, Edward Bulwer-Lytton did — perhaps updating the Great Bard’s rather less accessible claim in Hamlet that “many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills.”

And how do I know that my seemingly confident cultural touchpoint was incorrect? Because I mentioned it to a Large Language Model (LLM) as part of some unrelated research — and it — rather snippily — corrected me.

But that aphorism about words as weapons — no matter who wrote it — was thrust violently into mind recently following Anthropic’s announcement that it will begin encoding watermarking patterns into AI-generated text to track whether Claude was used to create — or assist with — a piece of writing.

Which apparently means that, from now on, a machine with an internal objective wholly unrelated to the author’s communicative purpose is going to participate in deciding which...

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