AnalysisPolicySeptember 18, 2026

SynthID-Text watermarking can weaken LLM safety guardrails

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Lasso Security research finds Google's SynthID-Text watermarking — which Anthropic will use in future Claude models — changes model refusal behavior and agent tool calls, a effect the researchers call "sampling drift." Effects are model- and key-dependent and can be hidden by aggregate scores.

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