The EU Wanted A Deepfake Detector. It Got An AI Scarlet Letter.

I spoke a little about this on last week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech, but now that Anthropic has come out with more details about how its text watermarking works, the debate has shifted into overdrive. Many people are upset about it, even though it appears that Google has already been doing something similar with the output from Gemini. I think that people are right to be upset, but for the wrong reasons, aimed at the wrong target. The real problem is that the EU’s AI Act is aimed at a threat that never really materialized, and the end result will fall hardest on the people who get the most genuine benefit from these tools. Also, it doesn’t help that Anthropic chose to comply with the law in a manner that looks broader than what...

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