Claude's invisible watermarks aim to prove AI processing under EU AI Act

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Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in Claude outputs to comply with the EU AI Act, applying to new models globally and to processed content where supported, with a forthcoming detection API; but the marks can be bypassed, may mislabel human edits as AI-processed, and their effectiveness remains uncertain, with penalties up to €15 million or 3% of global revenue for noncompliance.
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