Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior

The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior Recently, Anthropic announced that future Claude models would embed an invisible watermark in their output [1], [2], and subsequently disclosed that the watermark is based on Google DeepMind’s SynthID-Text [2], [3]. Text watermarking itself is not new, but its deployment now has regulatory relevance. Article 50(2...