You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI

Software engineer Sean Goedecke argues that the European Union's watermark rule for AI-generated text, mandated by the EU AI Act, is ineffective because users can easily remove watermarks by asking a second AI to rewrite the content. The EU AI Act requires AI outputs to be 'detectable as artificially generated' and embedded in a way that is difficult to separate from the content, but Goedecke demonstrates that this requirement is trivial to bypass.