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Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
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It’s using ‘a version’ of the open-source SynthID-Text system Google developed.
It’s using ‘a version’ of the open-source SynthID-Text system Google developed.
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Anthropic has clarified how it’s planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe’s AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude’s text marking system is “a version of the SynthID-Text approach” — an open-source watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind that creates detectable patterns using wording probabilities.
This watermarking feature, alongside C2PA support for Claude-processed images, is being introduced to meet Anthropic’s obligations under the European Union’s AI Act, which requires synthetic audio, image, video, and text to include machine-readable marks that enable the content to be detected as artificially generated or manipulated. Anthropic says the text watermarks won’t make Claude more expensive for users, or “have any practical impact on the quality or content of Claude’s outputs.” Here’s Anthropic’s explanation for how it works:
Take the sentence “The weather today was cold and…”. The next word is very unlikely to be “sugary.” But it is quite likely to be “overcast” or “grey.” Under most circumstances, it doesn’t matter much to the reader which of these latter two words the model ultimately chooses—the meaning of the sentence is largely the same either way. In cases like this, the choice is settled by a random number.