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You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI

The EU AI Act requires text watermarks from August 2026, but engineer Sean Goedecke says a simple paraphrase strips them out.

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 14, 2026
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AI watermarks — The Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. Photo by acediscovery / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
AI watermarks — The Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. Photo by acediscovery / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The EU AI Act AI outputs to be "detectable as artificially generated" and "embedded within the content in a manner that is difficult for it to be separated from the content."  But Sean Goedecke, a softwar…

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