The push for AI watermarks is spawning a new wave of tools to remove them

Anthropic is embedding watermarks in text from supported Claude models released since August 2.

Bloomberg/Getty Images Anthropic's push to label AI-generated text is prompting some to create tools to remove those labels.

One AI watermark remover has gone viral on GitHub, and search interest for the tools has increased.

AI watermarks have divided users, and some have canceled their Claude subscriptions.

Anthropic wants to make AI-generated text easier to identify.

Some software developers are already building tools designed to make those labels disappear.

The AI company said last week the " imperceptible watermark " on text produced by certain Claude models would travel with it when copied and pasted because it's a statistical pattern created through Claude's word choices.

While some have welcomed the improved transparency that AI watermarks could offer, the move has also prompted concerns among techies that a label could follow work even if they only used Claude to proofread, translate, or summarize.

Some users previously told Business Insider they have canceled their Claude subscriptions because of it.

The backlash has led others to seek out ways to get around it: Google Trends interest for "AI watermark remover" in the US is up 60% week-on-week.

Some developers and entrepreneurs have taken matters into their own hands and created tools to remove AI watermarks from text and files.

Anthropic has said it's introducing the watermark to meet its commitments to the European Union's AI Act.

The company did not respond to Business Insider's questions about AI watermark removal tools. 'The wrong answer to a real problem' Guillaume Meyer, a Paris-based tech entrepreneur and the founder of Memo, an AI tool for e-commerce brands, released an open-source project called "Watermarks Remover" days after Anthropic announced its plans.

The tool strips hidden characters and metadata, then rewrites text to preserve its meaning, thereby disrupting the statistical word-choice patterns that can carry a watermark, Meyer said.