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Poll: Watermarking AI in Substack articles (opens the original)
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In the past few days Anthropic, the AI giant behind Claude, announced that it would be watermarking all content generated by Claude. Technically this is to comply with the European Union AI Act’s Transparency Code which took effect at the start of August. Interestingly, Anthropic is not just rolling this feature out for its EU users, but globally. I haven’t found an official reason given by the company for doing so, but I would guess the issue of transparency probably played a part in its reason
Trump's language of War (VIDEO & post) (opens the original)
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We all know that Donald Trump uses bombastic and hyperbolic speech, but how is it changing now that he’s a war president, Commander-in-Chief during a conflict that isn’t going the way he’d like?“I am under the impression that Trump tries to maintain his credibility through language: ‘I’m going to erase a whole civilisation, I’m going to unleash, rain hell on you.’So it’s like what he cannot do on the ground he’s doing through his words, through his language. So he keeps the language strong and v
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