Anthropic adding watermarks to AI-generated content to comply with EU law

The AI giant linked the move to the European Union AI Act’s transparency code, which took effect on Aug. 2.

Anthropic unveils AI watermarks to comply with EU law  Dawn

Anthropic says Claude can now embed invisible watermarks in AI-generated content.

Anthropic joins a growing list of companies letting customers know if they’re consuming AI content.

The new feature will not be visible to humans and will remain in place even after text is cut-and-pasted.

Anthropic said in a support document Tuesday that its future AI models will put an invisible watermark in all text, identifying it as AI-generated. The change comes in response to new AI transparency laws in the EU, but Anthropic says it will apply in all countries where Claude models are used. No U.S. law currently re

New models will embed an invisible, machine-readable signal in AI-generated text, part of an industry-wide push to distinguish human writing from AI output.

In compliance with EU rules, Anthropic's Claude will start watermarking AI-generated content.

Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.

Anthropic will begin adding invisible watermarks to text generated by Claude as part of new EU rules designed to make AI-generated content easier to identify. But the system will also mark some text originally written by humans if it has subsequently been edited or processed by Claude, potentially complicating efforts

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