From PC World: Soon, Claude will be watermarking all its text outputs, and those watermarks will be invisible, Anthropic has been telling us. The big question, of course, is whether those watermarks will change the meaning — or lower the quality — of what Claude writes.
Anthropic gave a nuanced answer to that question in a recently published blog post, arguing that the watermarking method it’s chosen “does not impact the quality of Claude’s output,” although it will nevertheless “nudge” some of the model’s word choices.
“To a reader, a watermarked response is indistinguishable from an unwatermarked one,” Anthropic said. “In internal testing, we’ve seen no impact of watermarking on the content, level of creativity, or readability of Claude’s text.”
Claude’s text watermarks, which are coming in response to the recently adopted EU AI Act, will employ a “version” of Google DeepMind’s SynthID-Text process, which “changes the source of the randomness used to pick among words.”
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