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Anthropic's watermark rollout leaves a loophole on two older Claude models

Anthropic is expanding its text watermark to four more Claude models to meet the EU AI Act's December deadline. On the older models Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, developers can bypass the watermark by tweaking a single sampling parameter. Anthropic addresses the loophole with just a compliance warning.
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A tool or model opens in the Heidelberg AI Curriculum: what it does, what it costs, how to start. A repo opens on GitHub.


