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.

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 Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.