It might be some weird, visually indistinguishable character combination. For example, some “random” spaces might be non-breaking or actually a pair of thin spaces, hanging spaces at the end of lines/paragraphs/code tab breaks or any number of zero-width characters might be inserted.
I was thinking that but how would that work with Claude Code? Inserting invisible characters will either break code in the most sociopathic way or a formatter will just remove it
It’s not that obvious. They have ways of subtly statistically manipulating the output of their models, so that a computer can analyze it and recognize patterns that deviate in distinctive ways from what humans normally do. Just typing it out again won’t change the statistics. Rewording might. But if you’re going to rewrite the output, you lose the time savings you gained by getting AI to write your stuff, whether it’s code or an essay.
They said it “wouldn’t affect quality” but that’s been said about lots of things that do, like analog copy protection schemes. Yeah, it could be subtle stylistic choices in text and code.
It might be some weird, visually indistinguishable character combination. For example, some “random” spaces might be non-breaking or actually a pair of thin spaces, hanging spaces at the end of lines/paragraphs/code tab breaks or any number of zero-width characters might be inserted.
I was thinking that but how would that work with Claude Code? Inserting invisible characters will either break code in the most sociopathic way or a formatter will just remove it
It’s not that obvious. They have ways of subtly statistically manipulating the output of their models, so that a computer can analyze it and recognize patterns that deviate in distinctive ways from what humans normally do. Just typing it out again won’t change the statistics. Rewording might. But if you’re going to rewrite the output, you lose the time savings you gained by getting AI to write your stuff, whether it’s code or an essay.
They said it “wouldn’t affect quality” but that’s been said about lots of things that do, like analog copy protection schemes. Yeah, it could be subtle stylistic choices in text and code.
I mean, Occams Razor its:
It won’t actually get displayed with a “paste”, it’ll stay hidden to a human but be visible to the third party program.
Technically a solution, and if it wasn’t possible to just retype the words, it would actually be effective.
But if it can be defeated by someone manually retyping it, then it’s pointless. And that seems to be what their press release dances around.