Technology · 18 August 2026
Claude AI's new text watermark has a simple workaround
Anthropic, the tech firm behind the assistant, just began hiding invisible signals inside its global responses to satisfy European transparency rules. But when City AM asked the system about the change, it admitted people could simply translate or rewrite the text to mask its origin. The new feature tweaks how the bot selects vocabulary, using a method borrowed from Google DeepMind instead of obvious tags.
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