AI watermarking could make LLM guardrail adherence unpredictable — and that could be a big problem for the EU AI Act
THE SO WHAT
If watermarking schemes materially change LLM behavior, then compliance and safety guarantees become moving targets instead of fixed properties. Teams selling into the EU should treat watermarking as a design variable to be tested and documented, not a bolt-on for policy comfort.
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