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Aug 18, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How Claude’s Text Watermark Works: Anthropic’s Technical Explanation

Anthropic explains that Claude’s text watermark, derived from DeepMind’s SynthID‑Text and Scott Aaronson’s 2022 concept, alters the model’s token‑selection randomness with a secret key to embed statistical traces without degrading quality, while outlining its detection limits, code‑generation nuances, privacy properties, and industry rollout.