{"id":114246,"date":"2026-08-12T07:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/114246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:36:23","slug":"anthropic-unveils-ai-watermarks-to-comply-with-eu-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/114246\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic unveils AI watermarks to comply with EU law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American AI company Anthropic announced it will add an invisible watermark to text produced by its Claude chatbot so as to comply with European Union regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the company noted that this mark only means the text was processed by Claude, not that the chatbot actually generated it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new feature unveiled Monday in San Francisco will not be visible to humans and will remain in place even after text is cut-and-pasted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the tool has limitations, Anthropic said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detecting a Claude watermark means the text may have been processed by Claude but does not confirm the source, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, it said, \u201cClaude may not be the original author. People often use Claude to proofread, translate, summarize, or convert files. The output can carry a Claude mark even if the underlying ideas, text, or data originated from another source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conversely, a text that is very short or has been heavily edited may not carry a watermark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Claude generates a supported file type like .jpg, it will attach signed provenance metadata in line with an open standard used to record information about content provenance, Anthropic said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said only Claude models launched on or after August 2 will feature the new watermarks. Earlier ones will be upgraded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These changes are meant to comply with new EU regulations on artificial intelligence that say AI-generated content must feature machine-readable markings. Violations risk drawing stiff fines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic said it will use these watermarks all around the world, not just in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic is among some 190 organizations that signed a voluntary EU code of good practice late last month, with others including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google has come up with SynthID, a non-public advanced digital watermarking and detection technology. It is pushing for industry giants like Apple, Nvidia and OpenAI to adopt this standard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthropic has not yet released a watermarking detection tool as called for in the EU code of good practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American AI company Anthropic announced it will add an invisible watermark to text produced by its Claude&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[833,9347,39,40,344,29739,834,382],"class_list":["post-114246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-international","tag-mna","tag-technology","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}