‘Sowwy! We so sowwwy we stole all your data’s! But pweeeease let us watermark our stuff!’

ESH

And why are they mad?

Users: pay an oligopolist money.

Oligopolist: kills competition, enshittifies the product

Users: surprised pikachu

It's a legal requirement by the EU, to help identify AI-generated content.

Because they get caught cheating.

Actually, it's government regulation.

i think its a good thing, except to the extent that it will tend to make people complacent in the expectation that ai output will have a verifiable 'tell'

And Anthropic did definitely not kill the competition, quite the opposite in fact with the open source models coming out of China.