Posts tagged #Watermarking
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The rule, the watermark and the pen
From August 2026, text generated by Anthropic's models will carry a statistical watermark, in compliance with Article 50 of the EU AI Act. How you watermark a sequence of words (logits, softmax, entropy: the signal lives where the model is undecided), what that signal actually says and how well it holds up: a paraphrase dissolves it, a positive can be forged, open models run locally never apply it; with a test replicated locally, a watermark inserted, measured and removed on a half-billion-parameter model. And the question the watermark does not answer: a text is always someone's work of synthesis, and what makes it reliable is the process, the sources, the responsibility of whoever signs it, not the pen it was written with. Do the watermark, and the rule that requires it, add anything to the reliability of content, or do they risk creating misunderstandings? Where it speaks of editorial responsibility, the rule itself suggests the answer.