They should just replace the spaces by one of Unicode special space characters.

Can it be circumvented? Of course. Will most people go through the trouble to circumvent it? No.

A_D_E_P_T 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If it's that simple and obvious, you'll have 10 "Remove Claude Watermark" web-apps by the end of Day 1. Most of them coded by Claude.

Hell, it'll probably happen no matter how sophisticated their watermark is. There's no watermark in text that can't be detected and removed, and no text that can't be converted to generic keyboard ASCII.

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amelius 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You forgot about the cases where (1) people don't care, (2) people want to say "I used an LLM for this". I'm convinced that those cases happen more often than you think. Why not cover them with a simple mechanism? It's also in the interest of AI companies who don't want to train on AI output.

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pixl97 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Depends on the pushback in different sets of users. Students for example would clean it up.

	▲	amelius 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but let's first find out how many % of people are willing to be frank about their AI usage, and/or don't care about it. My guess is it is worthwhile to do this.

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selcuka 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But the source codes of those web apps will also be watermarked. /s

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RataNova 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Those invisible spaces get wiped by the first sanitizer in any normal ide. Worse it'll instantly break parsing for configs like yaml where spaces are critical for structure

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sixtyj 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://unicode-explorer.com/articles/space-characters

U+2800 or U+3164 would be nice.

But as I remove unwanted characters with grep before layout in InDesign, someone will make a skill for removing such space characters.

	▲	ack_complete 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We already have one, our Claude setup already requires output to be 7-bit ASCII clean and scans it for such.