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Anthropic Adds Random Watermarks to Claude for EU Deadline

8/18/2026

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Anthropic will add a random watermark to Claude to meet the EU rule requiring AI-generated text to be watermarked by December.
John Gruber warned the watermark could force Claude to choose worse words.
Steven Murdoch said the change will likely be unnoticed because the randomness stays predictable.
The EU regulation, covering AI companies, must be implemented within months and seeks to make plagiarism harder and prevent model collapse.

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Anthropic will add a random watermark to Claude to meet the EU rule requiring AI-generated text to be watermarked by December.
John Gruber warned the watermark could force Claude to choose worse words.
Steven Murdoch said the change will likely be unnoticed because the randomness stays predictable.
The EU regulation, covering AI companies, must be implemented within months and seeks to make plagiarism harder and prevent model collapse.