{"slug": "ai-generated-text-should-be-detectable-but-apple-needs-to-avoid-anthropics-huge", "title": "AI-generated text should be detectable, but Apple needs to avoid Anthropic’s huge error", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "As someone who writes for a living, you would correctly guess that I’m wholeheartedly in favour of allowing [AI](https://9to5mac.com/guides/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.\n\nHowever, Anthropic has just announced that it’s complying with an EU initiative to have [Claude](https://9to5mac.com/guides/claude/) watermark AI-generated text, but doing so in a particularly perverse manner …", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-generated-text-should-be-detectable-but-apple-needs-to-avoid-anthropics-huge", "canonical_source": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/17/ai-generated-text-should-be-detectable-but-apple-needs-to-avoid-anthropics-huge-error/", "published_at": "2026-08-17 13:30:47+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-17 13:41:15.819930+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Apple", "Anthropic", "Claude", "EU"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-generated-text-should-be-detectable-but-apple-needs-to-avoid-anthropics-huge", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-generated-text-should-be-detectable-but-apple-needs-to-avoid-anthropics-huge.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-generated-text-should-be-detectable-but-apple-needs-to-avoid-anthropics-huge.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-generated-text-should-be-detectable-but-apple-needs-to-avoid-anthropics-huge.jsonld"}}