Anthropic's Claude models will feature invisible watermarks, aligning with the EU's AI Act Article 50 to ensure machine-identifiable AI-generated text and files.
Anthropic adds invisible watermarks to Claude models (from Aug 2) for AI Act compliance: machine-readable marks embedded in text, persist after editing. Enables large-scale AI-content detection—critical for governance, compliance, and document authenticity in corporate workflows.
Claude models deployed on or after August 2 feature native machine-readable marking
Aug 11, 2026
12:36 pm
What's the storyAnthropic has announced its plan to add invisible watermarks to its new Claude models.
The move is in line with the transparency requirements of the European Union's AI Act, Article 50.
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