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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).



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

The power of confirmation bias…

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

We might have a definitive explanation at some point, but there are about a dozen possible reasons for something like this. For starters, is this something really significant and not something you notice because you are looking for it (again, confirmation bias)? A bit like some people still lose their minds when they see a dash, even though statistical analysis showed that they are not a significant marker of AI-generated text?


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 …


You're hallucinating




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