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Why Anthropic is watermarking every word Claude writes | E26

Aug 13, 2026 · 1h 28m

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This Week In AI is made possible by: Paypal Open Today’s show: Anthropic’s new Claude watermark travels around any and all copy-and-pasted text. Is this a logical response to AI slop, or more overreach from those regulation-loving Europeans? The panel agrees that identifying AI outputs has a place, but divides on how the world should get there. PLUS everyone’s favorite section of Mark Zuckerberg’s 6500-word techno-optimist AI manifesto, exploring the frontier labs’ blatant hypocrisy around distillation, and why Texas is hitting the pause button on 474 GW of proposed data centers. Guests: Will Bryk: https://x.com/WilliamBryk Exa: https://exa.ai/ Josh Sirota: https://x.com/joshua_sirota…