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AI-generated text should be detectable, but Apple needs to avoid Anthropic’s huge error

Apple should avoid Anthropic's approach to watermarking AI-generated text, which complies with an EU initiative by adding a watermark to Claude's output in a way that is considered perverse. The author, a professional writer, supports detectable AI text but criticizes Anthropic's method as ineffective and potentially harmful.

read1 min views8 publishedAug 17, 2026

As someone who writes for a living, you would correctly guess that I’m wholeheartedly in favour of allowing AI-generated text to be detectable and marked as such. There’s just a ridiculous amount of AI slop out there, and an “AI content” label means I don’t need to waste my time reading any of it.

However, Anthropic has just announced that it’s complying with an EU initiative to have Claude watermark AI-generated text, but doing so in a particularly perverse manner …

source & further reading
9to5mac.com — original article Apple has a huge product roadmap for the smart home: Here’s what’s coming These AI tools make my life much easier on the Mac PSA: Claude Code now enables auto mode as default, Anthropic says
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