AnalysisPolicyAugust 13, 2026

Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

EU AI Act Article 50, enforceable August 2026, requires AI outputs to be detectable as AI-generated. The article argues text watermarking is a steganography problem that's theoretically hard to solve perfectly, with partial solutions like Google's SynthID and Unicode tricks from OpenAI and Anthropic.

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