20260817 - Anthropic watermarks AI output and the AI bros yell

how DARE you catch me out 

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/17/anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell/ - blog post 

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Sources:

• How Claude's text watermark works https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark
• A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/
• Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing
• Words matter. Damnit. https://buzzmachine.com/2026/08/15/words-matter-damnit/
• Strikes me as fundamentally hostile to writers https://x.com/hammer_mt/status/2088605010615468329
• Then choose the words yourself and don't use AI, lazybones https://x.com/cath_menarion/status/2088692519026471022
• RIP Claude https://randsinrepose.com/archives/rip-claude/
• Tech Report: AI Bubble: 'AI companies have run out of internet.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VcLoNTXrGo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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• The EU's AI Act enters into force. Good. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/02/the-eus-ai-act-enters-into-force-good/

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