I fully understand why AI companies comply with the EU to watermark AI-generated content. This makes it a lot easier for them to train on human-made content, since it’s watermarked.

It reminds me of this study, where if you put images of the health effects of smoking on cig. packages, people actually smoke more. Of course companies like Philip Morris would agree with adding them. Same here with the watermarks: instead of helping people see the difference between AI and human content, it helps them get more and more data to train on. That’s why I ran this text through Claude, so it has watermarks 😉