GoKawiilAnthropic's text watermarking sparks quality debate after EU AI Act rules take effect
Following the EU AI Act's transparency requirements, major AI labs including Anthropic have begun watermarking AI-generated text to signal its origin. This has triggered a dispute among commentators, including writer John Gruber and Daniel Jalkut, over whether embedding these hidden markers degrades the clarity or quality of the generated text, with Anthropic itself maintaining that watermarking does not affect output quality, citing Google's SynthID-Text research.