This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Guillaume Meyer, a Paris-based tech founder and creator of a viral open-source project “Watermarks Remover,” which he made in response to Anthropic’s AI watermark announcement . His words have been edited for length and clarity.
I’m an entrepreneur, and I’ve been in the tech industry for over 20 years.
Last week, Anthropic announced it would add an invisible AI watermark. I knew other vendors, like Gemini, were already doing this, and out of curiosity, I started researching what AI watermarking is and how it works.
I had the idea to build a tool to see if I could remove the invisible…
