Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU
Ai and ML
EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry
Anthropic will embed watermarks in the text and files generated by future models it launches in the EU, as part of its effort to comply with content and transparency rules in the bloc's AI Act.
"Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where supported," the company said in a help document published on Monday.
The AI biz is also working on models it has already released, to add output marking during the transition period allowed under EU law.
"Marking will apply to output from supported models wherever Claude is offered, worldwide," the company said.
The move may further amplify the appeal of open weight models and alienate Claude customers, who don't necessarily want consumers of their AI-generated content to know its provenance. In the past, Claude users...
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