Comment by northzen
5 hours ago
> As far as I know, anthropic aren't intrinsically motivated by watermarking (if anything it hurts sales, and seems indifferent to safety(?)) they're simply doing it to fulfill the EU obligations.
They are. They want to reduce the amount of LLM generated text they feed into their next model training.
Also, how would you watermark a sentence with just 3 words for an example? This exactly why it became so verbose.
That would be a terrible tradeoff. The ship has already sailed and a lot of public AI content will not be their own. Deliberately making their product worse to reduce AI inputs by 25% just doesn't sound worth it to me. Is that what you would pick if you were in charge of anthropic and wanted to maximise the company's product?
They don't claim watermarkability on three word sentence, btw. Their docs says there's a minimum, just like every other AI detector. What wisdom do you think they would be missing if unable to ingest three word written pieces?