RIP Claude

I’ve used Claude quite a bit for both the upcoming new book and the next edition of Managing Humans. I wrote the entire book, but, as I’ve done for years, I’ve used the robots for editing, research, and data wrangling. When Anthropic announced they were going to do “text and image” watermarking, my eyebrow was raised. When humans I trusted began to analyze the announcement, both eyebrows went up. This morning, as I’ve done my own research, I’m furious. As of this moment, this is what I’ve researched. Anthropic states that models born on or after August 2, 2026, will have watermarking and that older models will be retrofitted by December 2, 2026. Anthropic states these changes are in progress, with no per-model disclosure, which means they can switch marking on silently, with no notice promised. There is no way to opt out, no API tier, no plan tier; enterprise-included. Applied server-side, below the model, worldwide. No detector currently exists — only Anthropic can check. As a…