Why Anthropic is watermarking every word Claude writes | E26

<p><strong>This Week In AI is made possible by:</strong></p><p><strong>Paypal Open</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Today’s show:</strong></p><p><strong>Anthropic’s new Claude watermark travels around any and all copy-and-pasted text. Is this a logical response to AI slop, or more overreach from those regulation-loving Europeans? The panel agrees that identifying AI outputs has a place, but divides on how the world should get there.</strong></p><p><strong>PLUS everyone’s favorite section of Mark Zuckerberg’s 6500-word techno-optimist AI manifesto, exploring the frontier labs’ blatant hypocrisy around distillation, and why Texas is hitting the pause button on 474 GW of proposed data centers.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Guests:</strong></p><p><strong>Will Bryk:</strong><a href="https://x.com/WilliamBryk"><strong> https://x.com/WilliamBryk</strong></a></p><p><strong>Exa:</strong><a href="https://exa.ai/"><strong> https://exa.ai/</strong></a></p><p><strong>Josh Sirota:</strong><a href="https://x.com/joshua_sirota"><strong> https://x.com/joshua_sirota</strong></a></p><p><strong>Eragon:</strong><a href="https://www.eragon.ai/"><strong> https://www.eragon.ai/</strong></a></p><p><strong>Kashif “Kash” Ali:</strong><a href="https://x.com/ChKashifAli"><strong> https://x.com/ChKashifAli</strong></a></p><p><strong>TaxGPT:</strong><a href="https://www.taxgpt.com/"><strong> https://www.taxgpt.com/</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Relevant Links:</strong></p><p><strong>Anthropic: How Claude marks AI-generated content:</strong><a href="https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content"><strong> https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content</strong></a></p><p><strong>Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA):</strong><a href="https://c2pa.org/"><strong> https://c2pa.org/</strong></a></p><p><strong>EU AI Act: Article 50 transparency obligations:</strong><a href="https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/"><strong> https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/</strong></a></p><p><strong>TechCrunch: Pangram Raises $9M:</strong><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/as-ai-content-floods-the-internet-pangram-raises-9m-to-detect-it/"><strong> https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/29/as-ai-content-floods-the-internet-pangram-raises-9m-to-detect-it/</strong></a></p><p><strong>TechCrunch: Anthropic’s landmark copyright settlement is approved:</strong><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved/"><strong> https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved/</strong></a></p><p><strong>World ID iris scanning orb:</strong><a href="https://world.org/world-id"><strong> https://world.org/world-id</strong></a></p><p><strong>Time: Sam Altman voices concern about “Dead Internet Theory”:</strong><a href="https://time.com/7316046/sam-altman-dead-internet-theory/"><strong> https://time.com/7316046/sam-altman-dead-internet-theory/</strong></a></p><p><strong>Meta: The Future is for Everyone:</strong><a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/the-future-is-for-everyone/"><strong> https://about.fb.com/news/2026/08/the-future-is-for-everyone/</strong></a></p><p><strong>Meta: Introducing Muse Glimmer:</strong><a href="https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model"><strong> https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model</strong></a></p><p><strong>Texas: Gov. Abbott directs comprehensive data center audit:</strong><a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-directs-comprehensive-data-center-audit"><strong> https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-directs-comprehensive-data-center-audit</strong></a></p><p><strong>Texas Tribune: New data center projects frozen:</strong><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-project-audit-greg-abbott/"><strong> https://www.texastribune.org/