Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?

The changes to the Claude AI chatbot will leave a pattern in the text that is detectable to Anthropic itself and to those able to decode it. The changes to the Claude AI chatbot will leave a pattern in the text that is detectable to Anthropic itself and to those able to decode it. Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text - but will it make quality worse? The world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word "delve", an excess of em dashes, and the chirpy, relentless construction of "it's not X but Y" . But is it about to get even worse?