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Policy2026-08-13 · source-backed
TechCrunch documented the August 12 backlash, including a complaint that a student who used Claude to reorganize a paragraph gets a "digital tattoo." The change began August 2: new models embed imperceptible text watermarks and sign .svg/.png/.jpg with C2PA provenance, under Article 50(2) of the EU AI Act's Code of Practice on Transparency, applied worldwide across the API, Claude, Claude Code, and the AWS/Google/Microsoft partnerships. Anthropic says detection is not conclusive, which is the part both sides keep skipping.
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