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I'd totally missed that SpaceXAI/SpaceXSI/xAI (or whatever they're called now) had turned on text watermarking by default through the Grok API starting on November 7, there hadn't been much chatter about it, no formal announcement of sorts. I wasn't even sure they were going to follow OpenAI/Anthropic et al, though I guess they had little choice due to EU regulations.

However, it now seems like they have turned it OFF by default, some time in the past few days as per the note at the top of the documentation. So admins now have to go into the console and turn it on.

Not sure what difference any of this makes tbh, but kinda interesting the different approaches the various AI labs are taking with API text watermarking. Anthropic is on by default with no option to turn off (I think?), something similar for Google/Gemini, OpenAI's is optional and off by default. Seems Grok had gone for a sort of hybrid, "on by default but with the ability to turn off". And now it's off by default.

None of this matters -- quote the whole sentence if that part of the sentence adds any kind of modifier or caveat to what came before -- which this did. Again, not saying it makes a material difference, but I just find it weird when people decide to "quote" things and leave out the whole thing. It tells me that they don't mean well.

Yes exactly this -- thank you for getting my point, I'm a little tired of internet people misunderstanding things. I'm not even disputing that Mozilla is trying to pull a fast one on all of us, I'm purely questioning the framing by the "journalist" this post links to. To be taken seriously, quote the whole thing -- if it really is a case that the last part of the sentence is meaningless, then leave that in your quote, and address that in your wittering diatribe, explaining to all of us why it's meaningless. Without that, all I see is someone cherrypicking half-sentences and trying to mislead people.

The problem I have with these kinds of hot-takes is that they often don't tell the full story, and it's seemingly for the purpose of generating rage. For some inexplicable reason, this guy truncates the paragraph from the Terms of Use, repackaging the information without a key part of the final sentence: "....to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

I'm not saying that this definitely makes a material difference, but it certainly changes the framing of it. The way he has framed it makes it sound like Mozilla has given itself carte blanche to do what it wants -- but the little caveat at the end of the sentence really does change the narrative a little bit. So why cut off a sentence half-way through it -- is it maybe to make it sound worse? For that reason alone, I can't take this guy seriously.

I tried to replicate this and couldn't. I think this might be the straw that breaks the camel's back for me re: Prime Video if it turns out to be true though.