Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?
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Claude baking invisible watermarks into all text to satisfy EU rules means provenance is becoming a default, not an add-on. If you’re building on top of LLM outputs, plan for a world where regulators and platforms can distinguish AI vs human text—and where subtle changes in token selection may affect style-sensitive workflows.
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