It is unbelievably amusing to see various people moaning that Claude 'watermarking' text (by doing a sort of statistical signal in the word choice) will "degrade quality"
[www.theguardian.com/technology/2...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/17/claude-watermark-ai-text-quality-worse )
[Claude to start watermarking A...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/17/claude-watermark-ai-text-quality-worse )
Ketan Joshi
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