Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now — The AI Wire

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Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now

Anthropic will watermark all content processed by Claude (including edits, not just generated text) to comply with the EU AI Act, applying watermarks beyond what the law requires, and plans to eventually release detection tools.

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Anthropic has revealed that it will soon watermark content that is processed (not just generated!) by any of its models.
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