Comment by AareyBaba
4 days ago
Text watermarking will surely cause a degradation in quality writing.
There's is no text watermarking that doesn't cause a decline in writing quality.
Writing quality will surely deteriorate if text watermarking is implemented.
Maybe this is silly: what about zero-width spaces or other hidden characters? Add them in post-processing, and the response quality doesn't degrade (though rendering etc. might be wonky).
That would be so much worse. Code written that doesn't work, SQL that couldn't be parsed, ...
Yes, it is silly. Stripping these is about as trivial as removing "this post was written by Claude" appended in plaintext. You could make a clipboard monitor that does this as soon as you CTRL+C, it's a 1-shot prompt. Not to mention that these wonky Unicode chars will break in every other program.
Stripping Anthropic's watermarking, however, is more difficult - probably about 2 prompts.
But your average joe won't "setup custom clipboard monitor to auto clip out whitespace". That's why Gemini still include its logo into generated picture even if it's trivial to crop it out
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