User drops Anthropic over watermarking, arguing tech always has an exit from surveillance

StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-08-16

A user announced stopping the use of Anthropic due to its watermarking feature. They argue that surveillance advocates ignore that technology always has an exit strategy (e.g., asking LLMs how to bypass it), and that Pandora's box is open regardless of regulatory or safety excuses.

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