Article 6PQST OpenAI won’t watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught

OpenAI won’t watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught

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Wes Davis
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OpenAI has had a system for watermarking ChatGPT-created text and a tool to detect the watermark ready for about a year, reports The Wall Street Journal. But the company is divided internally over whether to release it. On one hand, it seems like the responsible thing to do; on the other, it could hurt its bottom line.

OpenAI's watermarking is described as adjusting how the model predicts the most likely words and phrases that will follow previous ones, creating a detectable pattern. (That's a simplification, but you can check out Google's more in-depth explanation for Gemini's text watermarking for more).

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