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Re:Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a ... by thatjoeoverthr on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:32AM (#49327902)
1) we’re not discussing those systems. We’re discussing a chat AI product called Claude, which does not offer those knobs.

2) Claude’s PRNG having a P is immaterial

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Re:Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a ... by daishi55 on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:47AM (#49329974)
Claude has those knobs, they are just not exposed to the user. They could make Claude nearly completely deterministic if they wanted to (of course it would be a far inferior product then. But they could).
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Re:Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a ... by thatjoeoverthr on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:30AM (#49331627)
“Not exposed” = has no knobs. Of course all autoregressive LLMs can be operated this way but Claude, the product, employs LLMs but isn’t one.
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Re:Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a ... by daishi55 on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:50PM (#49340646)
Your original statement “LLMs use randomness in a fundamental way” is incorrect. LLMs have these knobs and randomness is not an inherent property of LLMs.
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