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Okay.
I don’t agree. But let’s say I agree.
…Just don’t use Claude?
Use an LLM without a watermark; there are hundreds to pick from.
In other words, if one is going to try to hide automated writing, I think there should be a bare minimum effort to do so. That includes:
Reading/checking the text, to see if it makes any sense.
Actually trying to pass it as human.
90% of slop is brain melting slop because this minimum bar isn’t even met. And all Claude’s watermark would do is catch that bottom of the barrel; it wouldn’t censor anyone.
From what I understood you need statistical tests to detect the watermark. You cannot easily detect by eyeballing that a coin will land on heads 55% of the time instead of 50%