// HACKER NEWS — CYBERSECURITY
Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.