Anthropic has clarified how it’s planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe’s AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude’s text marking system is “a version of the SynthID-Text approach” – an open-source watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind that creates detectable patterns using wording probabilities.
This watermarking feature, alongside C2PA support for Claude-processed images, is being introduced to meet Anthropic’s obligations under the European Union’s AI Act, which requires synthetic audio, image, video, and text to include machine-readable marks …