Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are Anthropic's first models to watermark text outputs; a detection API is available to eligible groups as required under EU law
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Model-level invisible watermarking with a detection API, driven by EU rules, is the start of provenance becoming a compliance requirement, not a nice-to-have. If you're generating public-facing content at scale, budget engineering time now to integrate watermark detection and logging into your pipelines.
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