Opus 5 verbosity a way to enforce the new watermarking?
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Opus 5 seems noticeably more verbose, and I’m wondering if that could be connected to the new watermarking/SynthID feature. Since statistical watermarking presumably becomes easier to detect with more generated text, could there be an incentive to make responses longer so the watermark has enough t…
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- 2026-08-23 01:35 · r/ClaudeAI
Opus 5 verbosity a way to enforce the new watermarking?