Why does Anthropic watermark content globally instead of just for the EU?
Building two separate pipelines, one watermarked for EU users and one unwatermarked for everyone else, costs more in engineering and maintenance than simply watermarking everything. This is the same economic logic that made GDPR privacy controls effectively global across most major platforms.
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Anthropic's August: Global Watermarks, a Policy Heavyweight, and a Rough OutageAnthropic rolled out worldwide watermarking, hired a former California Supreme Court justice as policy chief, and weathered a major Claude outage.
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