Anthropic’s move to watermark Claude-generated text is driving some users away from its AI assistant.
The AI lab said this week that some versions of Claude will embed an “imperceptible watermark” directly into their text output. It will travel with the content when it is copied and pasted and may survive some editing, Anthropic said, helping to distinguish AI-generated material from human writing.
Anthropic said watermarking does not change the meaning, quality, or readability of Claude’s response. Despite that, dozens of people have posted on X since Monday that they had canceled their Claude subscriptions, citing the watermark.
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