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The Mark of the Machine | The New Yorker

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Few forces have proved as powerful at tempering A.I. use as public shaming has. Now Anthropic is making it even easier to determine if text was generated by Claude.

Last week, Anthropic announced an unexpected policy change: text created with Claude, the company’s large language model, would now contain an invisible watermark. If a person were to copy and paste a chatbot-crafted passage into a separate document, an A.I. detector would be able to determine the likelihood that it had been processed by Claude. A.I.-detection systems aren’t new, of course; programs such as Pangram and Turnitin have become entrenched in academic and publishing practices. But, while those tools train on huge data sets to recognize statistical patterns that constitute a…

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