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
But the company noted that this mark only means the text was processed by Claude, not that the chatbot actually generated it.<\/p>\n
The new feature unveiled on Monday in San Francisco will not be visible to humans and will remain in place even after text is cut-and-pasted.<\/p>\n
But the tool has limitations, Anthropic said.<\/p>\n
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
For example, it said, \u201cClaude may not be the original author. People often use Claude to proofread, translate, summarise, 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
Conversely, a text that is very short or has been heavily edited may not carry a watermark.<\/p>\n
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
It said only Claude models launched on or after 2 August will feature the new watermarks. Earlier ones will be upgraded.<\/p>\n
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
Anthropic said it will use these watermarks all around the world, not just in Europe.<\/p>\n
Anthropic is among some 190 organisations that signed a voluntary EU code of good practice late last month, with others including Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and OpenAI.<\/p>\n
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
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,77831,6006,289,290,5101,18,2219,19,17,82,267163],"class_list":["post-632147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-regulation","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-claude","tag-eire","tag-european-union","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-watermarking"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117079258335538085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}