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

> Source: <https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/17/ai-generated-text-should-be-detectable-but-apple-needs-to-avoid-anthropics-huge-error/>
> Published: 2026-08-17 13:30:47+00:00

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.

However, 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 …