Anthropic Watermark
This is a telling data point for anyone tracking how the EU AI Act lands in practice. If a watermark can be switched off via a sampling parameter, it lives in inference defaults rather than in the model weights — compliance as a checkbox, not a property.… more
In our view, answering the gap with a warning instead of a technical block effectively outsources enforcement to developers. Fair to note that text watermarks were never robust anyway — paraphrase defeats most schemes — so the loophole mainly accelerates the inevitable. The real question is whether the Commission audits such exits in December or accepts compliance on paper.
Anthropic's watermark rollout leaves a loophole on two older Claude models
Anthropic is expanding its text watermark to four more Claude models to meet the EU AI Act's December deadline. On the older models Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, developers can bypass the watermark by tweaking a single sampling parameter. Anthropic addresses the loophole …
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