French blogger defends Anthropic's Claude watermark: labels AI-chosen words, not AI polish
AymericRoucher · x · 2026-08-18
French blogger Samuel Fitoussi welcomed Anthropic's decision to watermark Claude-generated text, noting the design has clear boundaries: it only marks text whose words Claude itself chose, not cases where the model merely did research, offered critique, or improved a shaky formulation.
His argument: if a reader doesn't care whether words came from a human or a machine — like a passenger who doesn't care whether it's a taxi or Uber, only about service quality — then someone using Claude as a ghostwriter shouldn't mind the reader knowing. In a quality-only world the watermark costs nothing, while readers who do care about provenance gain transparency.
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