Saturday, August 15, 2026

Google is letting users remove visible watermarks from AI-generated content while keeping invisible SynthID and C2PA metadata intact.

Anthropic's Claude watermark can verify AI authorship when present, but its absence doesn't prove content is human-written.

SEOFOMO News reports that OpenAI's documentation suggests ChatGPT's Fetch Bot may not be bound by robots.txt restrictions, despite evidence of it accessing blocked sites.

SEOFOMO News released a free browser-based tool that scans images for C2PA metadata and text for hidden Unicode watermarks to identify AI-generated content.