In George McFly's Handwriting

Biff Tannen understood AI watermarking in 1955. He couldn’t turn in his homework in George McFly’s handwriting.

This week Anthropic announced Claude will watermark its text. We’ve been here before. Recopy it or change it heavily enough for the mark to fade and you won’t get kicked out of school. Anthropic says so themselves!

Which is why the “will I get caught?” conversation misses the whole point.

The question worth asking is the one Biff never did, “is the work any good?”