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OpenAI to Roll Out AI Text Watermarking to Comply with EU Act; Says It Has Limitations

OpenAI said it has introduced AI text watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act.

Acknowledging the limitations of watermarking on AI generated texts, OpenAI said it will initially be rolled out only in the EU, while API customers globally can opt in for select models from today.

Claude Will Watermark Its Text Globally Under EU Rules; Key Limitation Persist

Anthropic says watermarks will be woven into Claude's text at the model level, but has not published detection thresholds or error rates. Illustration: AI FrontPage

Anthropic has committed to embedding machine-readable watermarks in text generated by Claude and attaching signed provenance metadata to generated files, applying the marks worldwide rather than only in the European Union.