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Words Matter. Damnit.. In an AI panic, the EU and Anthropic… | by Jeff Jarvis | Whither news? | Aug, 2026 | Medium
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18/08/2026 from
medium.com/whither-news/words-matter-damnit-fc883733a729
my notes ( ? )
The always good Jeff Jarvis on "Anthropic’s watermarking of text, as required by EU regulation... will alter its models’ word choices in a pattern based on a key only it knows, allowing it to detect writing (or editing or translation) by its machine ... will affect sense and style on an ever-larger proportion of text".
This will "devalue writing ... to protect the distinctiveness ... of human text, the authorities and the technologists deprecate what makes text human."
This links to the idea that the tools you use to write affect how you write and therefore how you think. I certainly think, for example, that my thinking's been affected by too much exposure to PowerPoint.
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