Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work

Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking system is "a version of the SynthID-Text approach" - an open-source watermarking technology developed by Goog

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How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

Other AI companies are also required to watermark content. Cheng Xin/Getty Images Anthropic has revealed how it's watermarking text generated by Claude AI to comply with the European Union's new AI transparency rules. The company said its text watermarking will not have easy-to-see visuals, will not be distinguishable

And other AI model makers are expected to deploy something similar

Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic. Bloomberg/Getty Images Anthropic has added a watermark to Claude-generated text that may survive some editing. Some Claude users said they canceled their subscriptions, citing the watermark. One developer said he's worried an AI label on code shipped to clients could raise question

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The move is part of Anthropic's commitments under the European Union's AI Act, which includes transparency rules that kicked in early this month.

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

Anthropic's new models will add machine-readable "watermarks" to Claude-generated text and files to comply with new European Union transparency regulations. Why it matters: Comms teams using Claude to simply clean up, translate, or format human-drafted press releases could stamp those documents with an AI signature. H