This is exactly why Anthropic pisses me off.
You can keep saying the watermark doesn’t change ownership, doesn’t identify the user, doesn’t affect quality, doesn’t add hidden characters, and won’t look any different to readers. Fine. But that is not the whole issue. The issue is that you are still marking work that a human being may have thought through, structured, argued, and emotionally meant, just because AI helped process it.
AI assistance is not authorship. If I wrote the idea, the argument, the meaning, the emotional core, and the final judgment, then it is my work. If Claude helped translate it, polish a sentence, or make it clearer, that does not suddenly make Claude the author. But a watermark absolutely changes how people perceive authorship. People are not going to say, “Claude may have been involved in processing this text.” They are going to say, “AI wrote this.”
And honestly, who the hell are you to do that to my writing? Who gave you the right to stamp your model’s involvement onto work that came from my thoughts, my experience, my voice, and my judgment? You can say it does not change ownership all you want, but socially, reputationally, and creatively, it absolutely changes how the work is read.
So fine. Do whatever you want. Build your watermarking system. Follow whatever framework you want. I’m not using Claude. Good luck.
في ذكرى "يوم عهد الاتحاد" نجدد العهد بالولاء والانتماء لاتحادنا وأرضنا وعَلمنا، متمسكين بقيم الوحدة التي أرساها الوالد المؤسس الشيخ زايد وإخوانه الحكام، طيب الله ثراهم، وأوفياء لإرثهم الوطني الخالد. توقيع بيان الاتحاد ودستور الدولة في 18 يوليو عام 1971 يعد علامة فارقة في تاريخ الإمارات التي تمضي اليوم بثقة في صون اتحادها وتعزيز منجزاته وتأصيل القيم والمبادئ التي قام عليها لتبقى راسخة في وجدان أبناء الوطن وملهمة للأجيال القادمة.
Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.
The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.
AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.
And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.
We built the library.
Someone else started charging admission.
أهنئ إخواني حكام الإمارات وشعبها والمقيمين على أرضها الطيبة بمناسبة عيد الأضحى المبارك، داعياً الله تعالى أن يعيد هذه المناسبة المباركة على وطننا والعالم أجمع بالأمن والاستقرار والرخاء.
I extend my warmest congratulations to my brothers, the Rulers of the Emirates, our family in the UAE, and Muslims around the world on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr. We remain confident that our region will overcome its current challenges, and that the UAE, through its strength, resilience, and the loyalty and unity of its people, will continue to advance towards a peaceful and prosperous future.
بمناسبة عيد الفطر المبارك، أهنئ إخواني الحكام والأسرة الإماراتية الواحدة والشعوب العربية والإسلامية، داعياً الله تعالى أن تتجاوز منطقتنا التحديات التي تمر بها لمصلحة جميع دولها وشعوبها ومستقبل الأجيال المقبلة. كل عام والإمارات في عز ومنعة، محصنة بإخلاص أبنائها وقوة مجتمعها وتماسكه وقيمه الأصيلة، وماضية إلى الأمام برسالة الخير والنماء والازدهار التي تحملها إلى العالم أجمع.