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  • Top Thiar Thinking: AI Scare Edition

    Welcome to this weeks edition of “Top Thiar Thinking” the “AI Scare” edition. Over the past two weeks we’ve seen a string of “meant to scare you into thinking our product is amazing” headlines from gen-AI companies, but the worst part is that it’s not even Halloween yet. To be honest, it’s not that AI is anymore scary that it was last week, or the week before, but companies like Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI have decided that scaring you into a permanent state of existential dread is apparently the best marketing tactic. Still, it’s not all doom and gloom. After…

  • AI wrote your text. Watermarking made it worse

    European policy, specifically the “Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content”, is rightfully influencing AI companies to watermark their output to protect the public, and those watermarks are being applied worldwide. Anthropic has signed the act, and a lot of the internet is beside itself because they’ll now have to write their own prose and marketing copy, or completely rewrite what Claude has been spewing forth when they prompt it. You see, Claude is now watermarking the text it generates in a way that can survive a simple copy and paste. How will these people ever pass these documents…

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