AI Text Watermarking Is Free And Good

Per Zvi Mowshowitz, AI text watermarking is a cost‑free method that lets anyone verify whether a piece of writing was produced by a specific large language model. The technique, pioneered by Scott Aaronson at OpenAI and now adopted by Anthropic for Claude outputs, works by embedding subtle statistical signals in token choices without noticeable impact on quality. Because the EU Code of Practice mandates such watermarks, companies like Google have already implemented them for years, and the upcoming API will simply let listeners check a document’s origin.

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