Give It Six Months

Anthropic wants to watermark everything Claude writes now. Not invisible characters bolted onto the end. Actual word swaps, buried inside the sentence itself, even in a private chat nobody but you will ever read.

M.G. Siegler broke down what that really means over at Spyglass, and it’s worth the full read.

He brings in John Gruber for the gut punch, and Gruber lands the real objection in one line.

The exact words we choose when writing matter.

That’s the whole fight, right there.

Here’s my hot take. Give this six months and watch it stop mattering. Moonshot dropped Kimi K3 in July. It’s open-weight and cheap enough to rattle chip stocks for a day. That’s not the first time this year that a cheap, open model from China has spooked labs charging premium prices for a walled garden.

The second a good enough model shows up without the compliance homework, nobody debates watermarks. They just leave.

Ultimately, none of this is going to matter. “Using AI” or “not using AI” is a useless designation because AI is already extending into everything from search to customer service to you name it. Most people don’t even know (or care) they are using it.

Do you?