{"slug": "claude-to-start-watermarking-ai-generated-text-but-will-it-make-quality-worse", "title": "Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?\n\nBy Aisha DownSource:\n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)[Anthropic](/glossary/anthropic) says it will change way [chatbot](/glossary/chatbot) makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulation\n\nThe 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”](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/15/chatgpt-stylistic-quirk-its-not-x-its-y).\n\nBut is it about to get even worse?\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/17/claude-watermark-ai-text-quality-worse)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-to-start-watermarking-ai-generated-text-but-will-it-make-quality-worse", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/claude-to-start-watermarking-ai-generated-text-but-will-it-m-hkju", "published_at": "2026-08-17 16:52:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-17 17:44:03.405327+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude", "The Guardian"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-to-start-watermarking-ai-generated-text-but-will-it-make-quality-worse", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-to-start-watermarking-ai-generated-text-but-will-it-make-quality-worse.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-to-start-watermarking-ai-generated-text-but-will-it-make-quality-worse.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-to-start-watermarking-ai-generated-text-but-will-it-make-quality-worse.jsonld"}}