double standard outrage from many, honestly, they're watermarking it. they've already told industry they take steps to mitigate distillation. Where's all the outrage over similar blackbox activities like how Steam performs VAC bans or how Gmail finds and blocks Spam?

You don't create a security measure then tell everyone how to bypass it.

I think OP is pointing something interesting out but the undertones of caution and "what else are they hiding" seem melodramatic and I find that hard to take serious.

The internet gives people a platform and, in a lot of ways, this supplants the typical role of journalism. The issue with this is no one wants to act like a journalist and actually explain the truth around a set of facts. Instead, they'll portray their opinions as a narrative and every time that resonates with someone or gets signal boosted, that narrative grows more assertive in the typical discourse I see nowadays. I would find it far more interesting to see what explanation Anthropic gives for these features than to immediately cry foul.