Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible, for now
Anthropic has revealed that it will soon watermark content that is processed (not just generated!) by any of its models. In a support article, Anthropic explained that it was rolling out machine-readable watermarks to comply with the European Union’s AI Act, which requires all AI system providers to watermark AI-generated or manipulated audio, image, text, and video outputs. The law applies to any AI model released after August 2 and provides a grace period until December 2026 for providers to u
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An AI company has announced plans to add invisible watermarks to all content processed by its models, including text that humans wrote but the AI only edited. The watermarks are required by European Union law to help identify AI-generated or manipulated content and prevent misinformation. However, the watermarks can be easily removed through copying, pasting into other systems, or basic editing tools, and they cannot distinguish between light edits like grammar fixes and complete rewrites, potentially confusing users about what the AI actually created.
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