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‘New models will mark AI-generated content from day one’: Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words
www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/claude/new-models-will-mark-ai-generated-content-from-day-one-claude-will-now-hide-an-invisible-watermark-inside-ordinary-words-heres-how-thats-even-possible-and-how-eu-rules-could-push-openai-and-google-to-follow-suit
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
As I’ve said in response to a number of articles about this, all this means is that when someone wants to use Claude’s output for something, they just need to remember to manually type it in now, rather than just copy-paste it. Practically speaking, this changes nothing.
It’s some kind of statistical thing about what word is where, what character is there how often. Typing won’t help, but a rewrite will.
What I’m saying is that if someone just types verbatim what Claude says, instead of just going “Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V”, that completely undermines this whole thing.
You seem to be assuming that they’ll be embedding hidden characters or something. That is not the case; the watermarking will be based around West specific words are chosen, meaning that if you type in those exact words, you’ll likely preserve the watermark. There are more details here: explainx.ai/…/anthropic-claude-invisible-watermar…
Very interesting read, thanks for sharing.
I dont think, he’s not hiding any invisible stuff in ASCII, it’s not technically possible. But the pattern can itself be a watermark like the person before me just said
Their point is that Claude is now engineering its responses to specifically conform to a detectable pattern, something that can of course be easily removed via a seperate LLM.
That was the author’s guess. Seems like this would only be detectable if it’s being used in enough text (possibly across multiple files).