Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?

The Guardian Tech Monday 17 August 2026, 16:52 UTC By Aisha Down 1 min read

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Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulationThe world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word “delve”, an excess of em dashes, and the chirpy, relentless construction of “it’s not X but Y”. But is it about to get even worse?

Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulation

The world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word “delve”, an excess of em dashes, and the chirpy, relentless construction of “it’s not X but Y”.

But is it about to get even worse?

Claude (PERSON) EU (ORG)

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