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Anthropic Introduces Invisible Text Watermarks for Claude to Comply with EU AI Transparency Rules

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Updated 2h ago

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Anthropic has announced the implementation of invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text, utilizing a version of Google's open-source SynthID-Text system. This move is aimed at complying with the European Union's AI Act, which mandates machine-readable marks for synthetic content. The watermarking process will not affect the cost or quality of Claude's outputs.

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What Changed Since Last Update

2h ago

Anthropic is now applying invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text for compliance with EU regulations.

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Claude's text marking system is a version of the SynthID-Text approach developed by Google DeepMind.

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The EU's AI Act requires synthetic content to include machine-readable marks.

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Google's Gemini chatbot has supported the SynthID Text solution since 2024.

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OpenAI has not detailed any text watermarking plans for ChatGPT in its AI Act compliance roadmap.

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Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work

The Verge·2h ago