Tech blogger John Gruber is joining the chorus of dissent over Anthropic’s plan to watermark Claude’s writing.
On Sunday, Gruber, the popular blogger who writes Daring Fireball, called watermarking plans a “perversion of writing.”
His main criticism: Claude should choose words because they’re best for the user, not because they help make the output detectable.
“The exact words we choose when writing matter. I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point. An obvious constraint that I accept is time and computation. Within the constraint of executing inference quickly, and at a certain cost per…
