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As I’ve said in response to a number of articles about this, all this means is that when someone wants to use Claude’s output for something, they just need to remember to manually type it in now, rather than just copy-paste it. Practically speaking, this changes nothing.
It's some kind of statistical thing about what word is where, what character is there how often. Typing won't help, but a rewrite will.
What I’m saying is that if someone just types verbatim what Claude says, instead of just going “Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V”, that completely undermines this whole thing.
You seem to be assuming that they'll be embedding hidden characters or something. That is not the case; the watermarking will be based around West specific words are chosen, meaning that if you type in those exact words, you'll likely preserve the watermark. There are more details here: https://www.explainx.ai/blog/anthropic-claude-invisible-watermarks-c2pa-august-2026
Very interesting read, thanks for sharing.