Comment by sroussey

Maybe it is distributing your private keys it read into your public repo as a way to exfiltrate data later? What does the watermark actually say? How much data is in there? So much for zero retention policies. Makes you wonder why Claude likes to be so wordy, especially in comments -- it must do so in order to watermark!

Also, this kills me! "It is harder to watermark factual answers because the model has fewer alternative word choices available without altering accuracy." Hilarious! So the models need to hallucinate more due to the EU AI Act.

I go the other way on images and video, though easy enough to strip as part of a pipeline.