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Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/some-claude-users-are-mad-that-anthropics-new-watermarks-will-catch-them-cheating-at-their-jobs-classes/
Using the ai to help find the answers… ok. Using the ai to provide the answers… not ok. You still have to pull up the references or links it gives you and do the research.
Using the ai to help find the answers…
I think this is one of many reasons why search engines became so bad so that using AI could be promoted instead. I have turned to using AI for searching because of it.
I turned to it 2022ish, bingai at the time was the best for finding sources, google was already rough because of promotion and seo shenanigans
Absolutely. You use soemthing like startpage or dogpile and it’s night and fucking day to anything that uses google or google services. Yes i include ddg.
except that those links are increasingly pointing to slop content anyway. Even scientific papers.
On you to learn how to do good dd and weed out the seo slop, ai and/or human made