AI watermarks are a good idea. They won’t stop AI slop
THE SO WHAT
Anthropic watermarking all Claude-generated or -processed text to meet EU rules is a compliance move, not a quality filter—low-effort AI content will still flood channels. Enterprises should plan for provenance checks as one signal among many and keep human or automated quality gates in any high-stakes content pipeline.
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