Can Anthropic's invsibile watermarks curb ‘AI slop’? Researchers remain sceptical

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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.

Anthropic announced Monday that new versions of its Claude AI models will embed an "imperceptible watermark" into the text they generate, a move that could make it harder to pass off AI slop as being created by humans.

EU-enforced update leads to fears that people will be accused of using artificial intelligence with their own writing

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

EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry