John Gruber calls Claude's AI watermarking 'patently offensive'

Anthropic says it's going to add watermarks to the text it creates. John Gruber is not pleased. Bloomberg/Getty Images Anthropic is adding a watermark to its LLM outputs to comply with new EU AI rules. Tech blogger John Gruber isn't sold on their approach. In a Sunday blog post, he called the new watermark a "perversion of writing." Tech blogger John Gruber is joining the chorus of dissent over Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude's writing . On Sunday, Gruber, the popular blogger who writes Daring Fireball, called watermarking plans a "perversion of writing ." His main criticism: Claude should choose words because they're best for the user, not because they help make the output detectable. "The exact words we choose when writing matter. I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point.