kgarten

I’m frustrated since August with the results from Claude for English text editing … I didn’t look for that. It’s just a fact.

This is not about em dashes …

That’s my point of the post … I had the feeling that the English text editing skills of Claude went significantly down in August.

I was frustrated at first not knowing what they are doing.

After I read this post, (seeing they introduced it in August) I think it has to do with the watermarking.

Try it on a paragraph … the connections between sentences feel clunky now.

I will play with it more and see if that’s really the case (the watermarking making the text edits worse).

I think this coverage feels very similar to the way Google Glass was treated back in the early 2010s ... there’s a grain of legitimate concern, but the article oversells what these glasses actually do and stokes alarm in a way that goes beyond the available facts.

Workers annotating data for AI might see sensitive content captured by smart glasses. But the leap from that to “we see everything” and framing it like some dystopian panopticon mirrors the early Google Glass panic, where the concerns often outran what the device actually could do.

Legitimate concerns shouldn’t be dismissed, but neither should they be inflated to create a new “Glass-forked-into-Big-Brother” narrative unless the evidence genuinely supports that level of risk ...