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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.
Seán MacGabhann
@seanmacgabhann.bsky.social

John. I think you have lost all perspective and sense on this one Claude is the problem here, not any eu interference And I think most people get that but you have a bias which is clouding your judgement

joshhunt
@joshhunt.dev

This isn’t a zero sum game. It’s both possible for Claude to write like shit AND think that sometimes governments have bad ideas for how to regulate the specifics of tech products.

joshhunt
@joshhunt.dev

Is bad, shitty regulation worth it just because we don’t like who it happens to?

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Seán MacGabhann
@seanmacgabhann.bsky.social

Short answer? Yes. Because the alternative is no regulation and bad people thinking they can just do anything they want Would good regulation be better than bad regulation? Sure. But then we are in a world of objectivity - and the people saying "bad regulation"? Well. I'm dubious