Ugh. Fuck “AI” and fuck Anthropic. But please read how the “watermarks” work. TL;TR its like a seeded run in a video game. With the seed and pseudo rng, you get the outcome i.e. the extruded text. In the watermark its the reverse, outcome + prng = seed. The result will be the same “quality” extruded garbage as before.
A bit of a late response, but why are they mutually exclusive? I get that the “seed” can be extracted if you check for it, but who says that seed can’t be somrthing nefarious? Like, someone vibecodes a website. You visit the website, extract the seed and it shows you the complete userbase of that website.
I’m just sptiballing here though. It might not be the best example. I get where you’re coming from, but why we cant we both be right.
The very fact that Anthropic is now injecting a kind of watermark into every output, is solid proof that such a Ken Thompson hack is a inevetable risk
Ugh. Fuck “AI” and fuck Anthropic. But please read how the “watermarks” work. TL;TR its like a seeded run in a video game. With the seed and pseudo rng, you get the outcome i.e. the extruded text. In the watermark its the reverse, outcome + prng = seed. The result will be the same “quality” extruded garbage as before.
A bit of a late response, but why are they mutually exclusive? I get that the “seed” can be extracted if you check for it, but who says that seed can’t be somrthing nefarious? Like, someone vibecodes a website. You visit the website, extract the seed and it shows you the complete userbase of that website.
I’m just sptiballing here though. It might not be the best example. I get where you’re coming from, but why we cant we both be right.
I don’t think you got how it works. Not being mean, might have explained it badly. Maybe read their blog https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark
Thanks, I’ll read it tommorrow (it’s almost midnight here)
Good luck.
Lemmy is damn near the when it comes to wanting to hold an opinion on a topic without having first understood that topic.
That’s just a reflection of the real life and not unique to Lemmy, dw