Watermarking: The Enshittification of Closed Models Has Begun
PhilKunz
15 points
4 comments
August 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
2001zhaozhao
I think this is overblown, the watermarking is just enforcing a particular recognizable output text style. The existing Claudisms like "smoking gun" and "it's not x it's y" evidently haven't impacted the model's agentic capabilities much, and i doubt the new ones will either.
gonight
So is k3 on openrouter the current meta?