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Dan Moren
@dmoren.com

Can't get mad about AI watermarking ruining writing if AIs aren't actually writing.

Six Colors@sixcolors.com

LLMs aren’t writing

sixcolors.comLLMs aren’t writingI’m not an AI hater: I’ve used it for my fair share of projects that involve coding or for troubleshooting various technology problems. In my work testing Apple’s Apple Intelligence releases, I’ve generated some images, all truly bizarre and many of them good for nothing beyond a joke. But I have been fascinated by the response to Anthropic’s AI watermarking scheme, especially after I read my friend John Gruber’s full-throated rebuttal. I have great respect for John as a writer. He truly cares about details: he’s meticulous about the words he picks, the way he constructs sentences and arguments. This...

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Rob McGinley Myers
@robmcmyers.bsky.social

Rarely have I been so relieved to see someone else write the rebuttal I had half formed in my own head. Like what’s the problem with changing AI writing to be more discoverable? If you don’t want an AI selecting words for you, don’t freaking use it to produce words!