Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

sean goedeckeJuly 2, 2026 │ ai, ai regulationText AI watermarks will always be trivial to removeThe European Union AI Act will begin to be enforceable in August 2026, one month from now1. One of the biggest new requirements is Article 50, which requires all AI outputs to be “detectable as artificially generated”. In other words, if LLM providers want to do business in the EU, they will have to apply a watermark to their outputs2: some hidden signature that can be used to identify AI content. LLM