Anthropic has explained how its new AI text watermarking system works. Newer Claude models can embed an invisible machine-readable watermark directly into generated text. Anthropic says the marking can travel with text when it is copied and pasted, and the system is being applied worldwide. The interesting part is that this isn’t a visible “AI generated” label. The watermark is embedded through the model’s word choices. I can see the argument for it: as AI-generated content becomes harder to distinguish from human writing, provenance and transparency become more important. But there are also questions about privacy, false positives and what happens when someone uses AI only to translate, edit or improve something they originally wrote themselves. Do you think AI-generated text should always carry a detectable marker? Or should users have more control over whether their AI-assisted writing is identifiable? submitted by /u/Pablomiller
Originally posted by u/Pablomiller on r/ArtificialInteligence