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Ask HN: Will Claude watermarking hurt your SEO? (I guess for sure it wont help)

A Hacker News user asked whether Anthropic's Claude watermarking will hurt SEO, speculating it will not help, while another commenter suggested there is no alternative to Claude for content writing.

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Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Ask HN: Will Claude watermarking hurt your SEO? (I guess for sure it wont help) 1 point by seky 34 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments help angelhadjiev 31 minutes ago [–] The question, whilst rhetorical, supposes we have an alternative. reply seky 30 minutes ago | parent [–] aren`t there other models? or is Claude still unbeatable in content writting? reply Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact Search:

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news.ycombinator.com — original article Ask HN: Anyone have solution to Opus verbosity in Claude Code? Ask HN: Why are websites and apps still running legacy code? Ask HN: Is there a marketable "skill" to using AI?
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