Watermark My Words

Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover.In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images (The Verge)Claude-inspired copypasting (LinkedIn)Anthropic investors bet on $2tn valuation in record IPO (Financial Times)The Future is for Everyone (Meta)OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves start-up less than a year after joining (Financial Times)US court rules Meta, other tech firms must face thousands of lawsuits over social media addiction (Reuters)Ninth Circuit Rewrites Section 230 To Remove The Part That Actually Mattered (Techdirt)Otherwise Obectionable podcast (Techdirt)And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:Breton calls for EU disinformation inquiry over Ceuta (Euractiv)Meta and TikTok agree to fact-check content on Spain border crossings after deadly rush (Reuters)Social media rumours spark biggest migration crisis between Morocco and Spain in years (Euronews)Thierry Breton: “Ceuta? La minaccia viene dall’algoritmo che guida gli arrivi” (La Stampa)Our fun links this week are this typing website for tiny fingers and a museum for your favourite memes — and the thinking behind it.If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon.Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).