that's the great thing about privacy - its none of ya business

This is probably relative. A lot of people (smarter and not so smart) got hooked on it because of how accessible and convient it is to just ask AI any question and get it spit an answer in seconds. However, there does seem to be a catch - after some time you feel emptiness / void because of how hollow it is. You don't seem to need to do a research anymore and critically evaluate the options.

Weird Al - Dare to be stupid

Credit who provided the info in the first place, not the 'ai' that spat it out.

Even more! In the EU it has to be marked/identified as AI generated, if you publish it anywhere (not that it's enforced much yet, but competitors might/will sue if it's used in a company setting). I think this should be adopted world wide (although fat chance, I know)..

Oh shit, Claude has enough credits to graduate with tens of thousands of degrees from hundreds of universities? All around a C-B average, weird.

Sure, but they need the watermarking to later claim the copyright on the stuff that people do create in the open with their agents.

"They would never do that!"

"And even if they did, I would sue them, and then the justice system would..."

"uh... uh oh"

Using the ai to help find the answers...

I think this is one of many reasons why search engines became so bad so that using AI could be promoted instead. I have turned to using AI for searching because of it.

except that those links are increasingly pointing to slop content anyway. Even scientific papers.

That’s the issue. It’s someone else’s fault, always. It requires a substantial amount of grey matter to accept personal responsibility, e.g. “I fucked up”. It was me, who made a mistake. When we make a mistake we downgrade to our lowest, most childish behavior, to deceive, lie and cheat, just so we are not in trouble.

Some people never ever ever ask the question to themselves “Did my actions cause harm to another?”. Their self-importance is too great for that. The maximum I can ever hope for, with the current state of humanity is, they’ll think about it, but throw in a nice excuse. Usually “But I was stressed/busy/angry when I did it”. And that makes it okay.

So, sadly, it requires a lot of grey matter to not use it. Mainly because of humankind’s inability to accept personal responsibility, not because a clanker contains some unobtainable information.

Would copying it in a text file not work?

Because doing that doesn't change the contents of the text so the "watermark" is still there.