Anthropic’s Claude Will Start Adding Invisible Watermarks to AI-Generated Text
Students and even some professionals trying to pass off AI-generated work as their own may soon have a harder time getting away with it. Anthropic announced this week that it will start adding machine-readable watermarks to content generated by its chatbot Claude, including invisible marks embedded directly into AI-generated text. With this announcement, Anthropic joins OpenAI and Google in outlining how it plans comply with transparency requirements under the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act.
- ▪Students and even some professionals trying to pass off AI-generated work as their own may soon have a harder time getting away with it.
- ▪Anthropic announced this week that it will start adding machine-readable watermarks to content generated by its chatbot Claude, including invisible marks embedded directly into AI-generated text.
- ▪With this announcement, Anthropic joins OpenAI and Google in outlining how it plans comply with transparency requirements under the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act.
4 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 35 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Anthropic’s Claude Will Add Watermarks to AI-Generated Text and Files — CNET — News
- ▪ Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models — TechCrunch
- ▪ Anthropic says Claude models in the EU will now add invisible watermarks to generated text and C2PA metadata to generated files, to comply with the EU AI Act (Thomas Claburn/The Register) — Techmeme
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Students and even some professionals trying to pass off AI-generated work as their own may soon have a harder time getting away with it. Anthropic announced this week that it will start adding machine-readable watermarks to content generated by its chatbot Claude, including invisible marks embedded directly into AI-generated text. With this announcement, Anthropic joins OpenAI and Google in outlining how it plans comply with transparency requirements under the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act. According to an Anthropic support page, new Claude models launched in the EU on or after August 2 will support the marking system from launch. Generated text will contain embedded watermarks, while supported files will carry digitally signed provenance metadata.
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