Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

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

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

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

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