Comment by csmoak
4 days ago
As far as I can tell, this and the recent change to add watermarking to text outputs[1], is to become compliant with the EU AI Act[2] and CA's AI Transparency Act[3], SB-942[4]. For large enough companies, all generated AI content is required to have watermarking.
[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark
[2] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/code-pract...
[3] https://www.kqed.org/news/12095398/new-california-law-requir...
[4] https://www.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient....
The CA law in link 4 clearly says it covers "image, video, and audio output", not text output. It's right in the second paragraph.
Good point, re: the CA law. The rule for text output may be limited to the EU AI Act, which Anthropic notes as a reason in the linked article about its implementation.