Anthropic · Gemini · Claude · Google · EU AI Act · Meta · IEEE Spectrum AI
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On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated.
Key facts
- The rapid spread of watermarking is in part a response to the European Union’s AI Act, which mandates watermarks for AI models released after 2 August, 2026, along with other planned and proposed
- For a tweet that is 20 words, I would need to have 50 or 60 percent of the words to be from ‘green list’ for it to be detected well.” —Vinu Sankar Sadasivan, Meta
- For a tweet that is 20 words, I would need to have 50 or 60 percent of the words to be from ‘green list’ for it to be detected well,” he says
- A likely word might get a 40 percent probability, a plausible alternative 10 percent, and an unlikely one a fraction of a percent
Summary
AI text watermarks are often, but not always, undetectable. Smith is a contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum and the former lead reviews editor at Digital Trends. The rapid spread of watermarking is in part a response to the European Union’s AI Act, which mandates watermarks for AI models released after 2 August, 2026, along with other planned and proposed regulations aimed at curbing the spread of deceptive or manipulative AI-generated content. AI watermarks can apply to many forms of content: The EU AI Act also requires them for images, audio, and video.