{"slug": "you-can-remove-an-ai-watermark-from-text-by-asking-a-second-ai", "title": "You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "The EU AI Act AI outputs to be \"detectable as artificially generated\" and \"embedded within the content in a manner that is difficult for it to be separated from the content.\"\n\nBut Sean Goedecke, a software engineer, [explains why the European Union's new watermark rule for AI text won't work](https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-ai-watermarks/). — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/14/ai-text-watermarks-trivial-to-remove.html)\n\nThe post [You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/14/ai-text-watermarks-trivial-to-remove.html) appeared first on [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-remove-an-ai-watermark-from-text-by-asking-a-second-ai", "canonical_source": "https://boingboing.net/2026/08/14/ai-text-watermarks-trivial-to-remove.html", "published_at": "2026-08-14 12:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 12:40:56.353676+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Sean Goedecke", "European Union", "EU AI Act", "Boing Boing"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-remove-an-ai-watermark-from-text-by-asking-a-second-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-remove-an-ai-watermark-from-text-by-asking-a-second-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-remove-an-ai-watermark-from-text-by-asking-a-second-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-can-remove-an-ai-watermark-from-text-by-asking-a-second-ai.jsonld"}}