Posted by ropbear 1 day ago
> "My error was believing Anthropic"
The error is rearranging part of one's life around Anthropic.
I swear, one of those days I will get into politics just to fight those two things, and the cottage industry of batshit crazy lawyers that gave birth to those things.
It's either don't track or ask for consent. The fact that the industry chooses to track is not on the EU.
Of course this misses a bigger point that tracking in the web moved in a direction that requires no cookies whatsoever, and if anything, feels more pervasive than it ever was.
And it misses the even bigger point, that the morons who legislated cookie consent did not notice either of those two realities. And the same thing is already true with the AI act; the text watermarking is trivially defeated and everyone knows it. And I'd bet it will remain a requirement for the next decade or three.
The standard procedure to do this, is to chain translations to other languages and back. The message remains, but the wording will pick up some noise. --Dec 30, 2008.
The output quality will likely suffer as stated in the article although this can be mitigated to an extent by only enabling it on more irrelevant filler text while leaving the more functional sections untouched.
The solution using Unicode tricks amounts to malicious compliance as only the most unsophisticated users are going to fail to remove the AI watermarks when trying to pass off AI slop as their own prose.
The real solution here is not having stupid EU–tier laws in the first place.