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