felix stalder on Nostr: I understand the sentiment of critique of Anthropic's watermarking. The choice of ...

I understand the sentiment of https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball@mastodon.social critique of Anthropic's watermarking.

The choice of words it generates is influenced by the method to create a watermark. In other words, it's the best it can do, minus the requirements of the watermark.

But the problem is, this assumes that "the best it can do" is really "the best" (however good that is), and not already influenced by a myriad of choices not in the user's but the company's interest.

And this strikes me as widely naive, even before the enshittification phase has begun.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing