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

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/claude-to-start-watermarking-ai-generated-text-but-will-it-make-quality-worse/
- Published: 2026-08-17T16:52:04+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/17/claude-watermark-ai-text-quality-worse
- Topics: AI, Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Europe, Technology, World

## Summary

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…

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