Discussion - Claude is secretly watermarking your text, and it is almost impossible to remove

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Scarecrow
Scarecrow
Arena Apprentice
• 1d ago

How do you watermark text? If it's a Word or Google doc, it could add all sorts of invisible crud. But they claim it's part of the text itself and survives copy/paste, even editing.


I am skeptical.

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IgnobleNobility
IgnobleNobility
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• 23h agoedited

So all the AI-dependent would-be writer must do to remove the watermark is this: screenshot the AI-generated text, use an Optical Character Recognition app to open that screenshot and generate its own copy of the text, copy and paste that text into a new document, save it, and no more invisible indelible AI watermark. Will take about thirty seconds.

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eric_sklaros
eric_sklaros
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• 11h ago
↵IgnobleNobility said:

So all the AI-dependent would-be writer must do to remove the watermark is this: screenshot the AI-generated text, use an Optical Character Recognition app to open that screenshot and generate its own copy of the text, copy and paste that text into a new document, save it, and no more invisible indelible AI watermark. Will take about thirty seconds.

Er, this is not a visible watermark, that should be very clear. Since the only way to remove it is through heavy text alteration, it's clearly a pattern generated through the placement and spacing of characters and punctuation.

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tokuzumi
tokuzumi
Arena Master
• 6h ago

Paste into Notepad, check for odd text, delete, copy the rest, paste into word editor.

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IgnobleNobility
IgnobleNobility
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• 1h ago
↵eric_sklaros said:

Er, this is not a visible watermark, that should be very clear. Since the only way to remove it is through heavy text alteration, it's clearly a pattern generated through the placement and spacing of characters and punctuation.

And running the text through an OCR program to read that text would strip all this fancy formatting out.

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Waxon
Waxon
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• 24m ago
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Paste into Notepad, check for odd text, delete, copy the rest, paste into word editor.

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