Doc Searls, the long time Editor-in-Chief of the Linux Journal, brings an editors viewpoint to this, and mixes in a number of other voices.[1]

Many writers use AI to edit their own words, and this watermarking poisons the well for that use.

I think the backlash from this could be the seed that undoes their attempted 2 Trillion IPO this fall.

[1] https://doc.searls.com/2026/08/17/you-can-hear-the-squeak-of...