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

> Source: <https://www.machinebrief.com/news/claude-to-start-watermarking-ai-generated-text-but-will-it-m-hkju>
> Published: 2026-08-17 16:52:04+00:00

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

By Aisha DownSource:

[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

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”](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/15/chatgpt-stylistic-quirk-its-not-x-its-y).

But is it about to get even worse?

[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/17/claude-watermark-ai-text-quality-worse)

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