Though Claude 5 is not too verbose, it’s more like, full of incomprehensible jargon (even when you’re expert in the domain discussed!)
Actually, I think Jeavon's Paradox [1] means the opposite. If doing X is $100, you may only use it to do X, but not Y, Z, or W. If doing X is $33, maybe you'll use it for X, Y, Z, and W -- spending 1/3 more than you otherwise would.
Or perhaps not you personally, but maybe you'd be willing to spend $100, but three of your friends find it too expensive. If it's only $33 to accomplish some task, then maybe all four are now spending $33.
Which is something the providers that are trying to watermark their texts can't afford. Superfluous replies give much more opportunity to further encode this junk information.
Low-entropy text is fluff and filler. It's very easy to synonym-substitute words without changing the message - if there even is one.
As far as I know, anthropic aren't intrinsically motivated by watermarking (if anything it hurts sales, and seems indifferent to safety(?)) they're simply doing it to fulfill the EU obligations.
They are. They want to reduce the amount of LLM generated text they feed into their next model training.
Also, how would you watermark a sentence with just 3 words for an example? This exactly why it became so verbose.
Do they still get split into commits in sensible ways, for you?
I've found that models interpret "brevity" as "incomprehensible".