Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?

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Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, announced it will begin watermarking AI-generated text by altering the model's small, random choices, a move aimed at complying with EU regulation. The change, which could affect text quality, is part of broader efforts to trace AI-generated content.

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The Guardian Technology Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulation

The world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word “delve”, an excess of em dashes, and the chirpy, relentless construction of “it’s not X but Y”.

But is it about to get even worse?

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