What I’m saying is that if someone just types verbatim what Claude says, instead of just going “Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V”, that completely undermines this whole thing.
Their point is that Claude is now engineering its responses to specifically conform to a detectable pattern, something that can of course be easily removed via a seperate LLM.
You seem to be assuming that they’ll be embedding hidden characters or something. That is not the case; the watermarking will be based around West specific words are chosen, meaning that if you type in those exact words, you’ll likely preserve the watermark. There are more details here: https://www.explainx.ai/blog/anthropic-claude-invisible-watermarks-c2pa-august-2026
I dont think, he’s not hiding any invisible stuff in ASCII, it’s not technically possible. But the pattern can itself be a watermark like the person before me just said
What I’m saying is that if someone just types verbatim what Claude says, instead of just going “Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V”, that completely undermines this whole thing.
Their point is that Claude is now engineering its responses to specifically conform to a detectable pattern, something that can of course be easily removed via a seperate LLM.
You seem to be assuming that they’ll be embedding hidden characters or something. That is not the case; the watermarking will be based around West specific words are chosen, meaning that if you type in those exact words, you’ll likely preserve the watermark. There are more details here: https://www.explainx.ai/blog/anthropic-claude-invisible-watermarks-c2pa-august-2026
Very interesting read, thanks for sharing.
I dont think, he’s not hiding any invisible stuff in ASCII, it’s not technically possible. But the pattern can itself be a watermark like the person before me just said