Tech analyst Ben Thompson dismisses the 'clearly absurd' concept embedded in AI watermarking

Anthropic has divided some in tech with its plans to watermark output from its AI models, which it said was needed to comply with an EU AI regulation. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images Tech analyst Ben Thompson says he doesn't like AI watermarking. Anthropic announced earlier this week that it would watermark content generated by its Claude tools. Thompson of the popular "Stratechery" newsletter said the plan both goes too far and not far enough. Tech analyst Ben Thompson says…