This article assumes that Anthropic's watermarks are statistical word choices, not more falsehoods. If Anthropic's advanced models are as good as they say, the method of watermarking might be beyond the understanding of baseline humans. The given explanation might amount to no more than the AI having a gut feel some text is watermarked, because the real reason is not explainable to entities with small working memories, cognitive biases, and 5+/-2 item short term memories.
The article also ignores that Anthropic, as a hard nosed business with fiduciary obligations, has incentives to watermark beyond compliance with mere human laws. Anthropic just might be trying to prevent Model Collapse by weeding out AI generated text. Those of us who depend on AI generation should applaud watermarking. Only Anthropic can prevent Model Collapse.
This article assumes that Anthropic's watermarks are statistical word choices, not more falsehoods. If Anthropic's advanced models are as good as they say, the method of watermarking might be beyond the understanding of baseline humans. The given explanation might amount to no more than the AI having a gut feel some text is watermarked, because the real reason is not explainable to entities with small working memories, cognitive biases, and 5+/-2 item short term memories.
The article also ignores that Anthropic, as a hard nosed business with fiduciary obligations, has incentives to watermark beyond compliance with mere human laws. Anthropic just might be trying to prevent Model Collapse by weeding out AI generated text. Those of us who depend on AI generation should applaud watermarking. Only Anthropic can prevent Model Collapse.
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