Anthropic Plans to Watermark Claude-Generated Text

Anthropic: Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text, and we, along with several other major AI providers, are implementing this change to comply with the EU AI Act. In this article, we share answers to some of the questions we’ve received about how our chosen watermarking method works, whether it affects Claude’s outputs, and why we’re making this change. To summarize: We use a method of watermarking that does not have any practical impact on the quality or content of Claude’s outputs; The difference between watermarked and un-watermarked text will not be distinguishable to readers; Nothing is added to the text and there are no hidden characters; Watermarking doesn’t require extra tokens, and will not be more expensive; Watermarking carries no identifying information and can’t be traced to a specific person, organization, or chat; Watermarking won’t be specific to Claude.…