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Anthropic just rolled out a tool that'll decimate some people's dreams of writing AI novels undetected
tech.yahoo.com/ai/claude/articles/anthropic-just-rolled-tool-thatll-040904467.html
Maybe I’m out of the loop, but how would I watermark a text without sounding obvious? By using weird phrases? They get edited. By using e.g. an exact combination of starting letters over a large paragraph? One changed word and it’s broken. And even if not, I could happen to write the same myself, and then?
How am I hiding a signature in Plain text? Anyone got a better idea than my silly ones?
The more apt word is steganography, rather than watermark. Basically subtly adjust the weights of the model so that some subtle patterns appear. Think of how AI text prefers certain words and phrases that ordinary humans don’t use as often, like “delve,” but presumably much more subtle.
And no, as Anthropic has already said, this watermark may not survive editing/formatting.
Claude Now Watermarks Your Text | Vanja Petreski - vanja.io/claude-invisible-watermark/