Anthropic Defends Its Watermark, Google Lets Users Remove Gemini's, AI Firms Pulp Millions of Books, ChatGPT Launches a Teen Mode
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Anthropic Defends Its Watermark: After user backlash, Anthropic explained its invisible text watermark (based on Google's SynthID) creates a detectable word-choice pattern that it says leaves creativity and readability unaffected and can't be traced to any person or chat. The system only assigns a probability text came from Claude—it can't confirm human authorship, can't tag short passages or code, and Anthropic applied it globally because it lacks a way to limit it to the EU.
Google Lets Users Strip Gemini's Watermark: In contrast, Google now lets Gemini users remove the…
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