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Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing
Replying to @JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org
The idea that anything other than my needs should factor into the generation of text for me is patently offensive.
Primary reason I’m not using any hosted LLMs is I can’t stand and don’t want to start relying on tools that can be stealthily enshittified or made an advertising tool.
The open models are good enough. We will at least have what is available today and thats enough for most use cases. Deepseek v4 is dirt cheap and its really good.
It doesnt seem like anyone is going to make a massive leap since theyre all training data and compute bottlenecked.