Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks
Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would globally embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into any AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer had published his override.
His code to remove watermarks from Claude-generated text has since gone viral on GitHub, has been bookmarked more than 20,000 times on X, and has drawn more than 100 contributors, with many more incorporating the technology into their own projects. “Anthropic is embedding watermarks in its Claude texts … the issue is practically history just one day later,” wrote one AI specialist, accompanied by an image of Meyer breaking out of chains and standing on crumpled EU and Anthropic flags.
Meyer and others started investigating how watermarking works after Anthropic announced last week that Claude would adopt it in order to comply with the European Union’s AI Act.
Some are trying to evade the watermarking because they disagree with the idea that all...
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