Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images

- Anthropic has pledged to embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks in Claude-generated text and digitally signed provenance metadata in generated files — all to keep European regulators from issuing the kind of fine that makes a threadbare hull look luxurious. The marks won't be visible to human eyes but will let platforms detect AI content. These are future commitments, not live policy yet. Translation from Zhao Ledger's desk: the EU AI Act's transparency obligations are coming, and whoever ships unlabeled synthetic content gets to star in the next enforcement footnote. Not on the manifest? Then it didn't happen — and apparently neither did your compliance budget. Audit trail or audit prison, folks. «Compliance theater sold separately.»