OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU
What's happening
OpenAI will add an invisible, machine-readable watermark to ChatGPT and Codex text for users in the European Union to comply with the AI Act. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approaches such as Google DeepMind's SynthID, and notes that editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect. Anthropic has also used SynthID for text watermarking, and other companies (like Google DeepMind) are referenced as comparable approaches.
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Regulatory pressure from the EU AI Act is forcing major LLM vendors to deploy detection-friendly watermarks now.
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If you live in the EU and use ChatGPT, some of its replies will now carry an invisible machine-readable tag, here is what that actually means for you today and after you edit the text.
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- OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI textThe RegisterOct 6
- OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
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