As AI-generated content continues to flood the internet, Anthropic has said that content created using Claude will now carry machine-readable watermarks, including for text, text files, and images. Under the EU’s AI Act, Anthropic is classified as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. As a result, it has to comply with legal requirements pertaining to the marking and detection of AI-generated content. How will watermarking work for AI-generated content? Other AI models can be used to paraphrase AI-generated text, which may pass scrutiny given that AI detection tools themselves are not 100 per cent reliable.