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The EU's mandate that AI systems mark all their outputs, including text, as AI-generated is a terrible idea, first and foremost for philosophical reasons.
The EU has mandated that providers of AI systems mark all outputs, including text, as AI-generated. Ben thinks this is a terrible idea, first and foremost for philosophical reasons, in response to Anthropic's reaction to the regulation. ✦ AI generated
Andrew Sharp · Stratechery · 2026-08-14 · original ↗
To that end, the EU has mandated that providers of AI systems mark all their outputs, including text, as AI-generated. Wednesday's Update explored Anthropic's response to that European regulation and why Ben thinks all of this is a terrible idea.
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supports → Anthropic is adding watermarking in response to the EU's AI law, and it's a terrible idea, first and foremost for philosophical reasons.Ben Thompson · Stratecherysupports → Anthropomorphizing AI systems with words like 'understand' and 'intelligence' is unnecessary, inappropriate, and a distraction for most real problems — it belongs to science fiction, not engineering.Michael Jordan · Machine Learning Street Talksupports → Anthropomorphizing AI systems by asking whether they 'understand' is unnecessary, inappropriate, and a distraction — what matters is that a system's input-output behavior is predictable and useful, not whether it possesses understanding.Michael I. Jordan · Machine Learning Street Talk