18 August 2026

Anthropic adds watermarks to Claude to comply with EU regulation

  • Anthropic is modifying how Claude makes word choices to embed invisible watermarks that comply with an EU requirement that all AI-generated text be marked by December.
  • The watermark works by constraining the random selection process the model uses when picking between similar words, creating a detectable pattern only Anthropic can identify.

How it was covered

Reported by The Guardian, TechCrunch, The Verge, TechCrunch