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John Gruber
@gruber.foo

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthro…

daringfireball.netAnthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of WritingIt’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.
Dave Feldman
@schvenk.bsky.social

Reading your various posts on this I was reminded of the web3 era. In both cases, there's an assumption that we can find an algorithmic solution to a fundamentally human problem, and in doing so we introduce new problems.

Rob Shearer
@r.v.cx

What “human problem” was blockchain alleged to solve?

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Rob Shearer
@r.v.cx

Fair; that was the claim. Which led to an ecosystem of every con game ever invented. Because they all start with “trust me…”