I don’t understand how this works for anything but prose. Is that the point? In any code or structured output, there just isn’t the flexibility, and depending on how the user requests the output be constrained there is even less (“answer only True or False”). So is it just chat responses? If I ask the API to tell me a story about Alice and Bob then it watermarks it, but when I ask it some implausibly constrained thing like write a story about Alice and Bob with each word starting in rotation with the letters alicebob, does it try to do so and hope there are roughly équiprobable tokens regularly?

"My writing is my work, and Anthropic's current strategy is aggressively writer-hostile."

They just want to prevent their own slop being fed back into their AIs.

I think this would be a good guard on websites to use it as another content protection layer.

Not telling someone you used AI is a perversion of writing. Also agree that an AI proofreader should not claim authorship, but in most other cases, the AI is not reading your mind, it's only watermarking its own usage, and we kind of need more of that.

Claude is already a perversion of writing.

Reminder: your favorite distilled model does not treat you, the customer, as an adversary and mess with your output.... May the free market win.

He's complaining that a coin-flipping synthetic text extruder is using an unfair coin. The text generated by an LLM is already adulterated. His objections are so much titling at windmills.

Awwww, little blogger can’t write his slop anymore without rest of the world knowing that he’s not the author?

Why does everyone love AI and is impressed by AI quality but when the time comes to admitting that they use the magical AI, no one wants the watermark?

How does this work for code?