Please don't let the arbitrary selection of phrase distract you from the substance of my argument: a product that I pay for is at best no better due to this change, and highly probably worse. Why am I paying for a tool that is beholden to clandestinely satisfy some far away master?
Good question! Why are you paying for some tool that has always been beholden to some faraway master's opaque agenda?
We live in a world where outcomes are often more important than process
Because the tool is made by a corporation that is subject to regulation by a government, and that government has decided it’s in the best interests of society that the tool be limited in this way.
> Why am I paying for a tool that is beholden to clandestinely satisfy some far away master?
Why were you doing that before watermarking?
Same answer.
I assure you, this is one of the mildest things they do after training before the model reaches you.
I don't know, why are you? Who's to say Anthropic wasn't already modifying output in some way for optimization or some other reason? These models are incredibly opaque.
Who's is it?
That's just the point: nobody knows! It might be my code. It might be your code. Nobody knows who they stole it from.