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I’m convinced, upon rereading, that this simply misunderstands how either or both of how LLMs or watermarking works daringfireball.net/2026/08/anth...

He also doesn't understand regulation. (Or non American regulation, but I think the doesn't understand regulation) Not that EU regulators are perfect (cookies), but he does constantly filter everything through a lens of "the EU is are all to a person idiots" which is unhelpful commentary at best.

Gruber does that because he's primarily an Apple influencer, and in order to keep his access to Apple he needs to toe the party line that the EU is wrong. With regard to cookies, they're the worst workable solution because the ad industry strangled Do Not Track (browser-based, set once) in the crib.

Americans just generally believe the EU is bad and wrong Especially US techies