Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

• Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated.
• Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been AI-generated or edited in a manner identifiable to computer systems.
• Yet while European regulators may be happy, some AI users are decidedly not.