A watermark remover is not the scandal here
What surprised me isn’t that someone tried to break Anthropic’s watermarking idea. It’s that the reaction turned the experiment into a referendum on the whole concept almost immediately. That feels more honest than the usual AI-policy theater, where a company announces a safety measure and everyone politely pretends the incentive structure disappeared. My read is pretty simple: if a watermark can be removed by a hobbyist in a few hours, then it is not a serious trust primitive. It may still have
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