Anthropic defends and explains its AI watermarking feature
THE SO WHAT
Watermarking is shifting from a product choice to a regulatory compliance layer — Anthropic rolling this out globally to satisfy the EU AI Act means every serious model vendor will need a similar control surface. If your workflows depend on unmarked outputs or white-labeling, you now have to treat provenance metadata as a constraint, not an afterthought.
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