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OpenAI is deploying textGrain watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex primarily to comply with the EU's AI Act, ensuring content provenance without compromising model performance benchmarks. While this move aligns OpenAI with competitors like Google DeepMind and Anthropic, the technology currently lacks global rollout and does not verify human authorship or accuracy claims.
OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like OpenAI, Anthropic made the move to meet the requirements of the EU's AI Act; however, not everyone was happy to learn about the addition. OpenAI also included scores from AI benchmarks showing similar performance from watermarked and unwatermarked text. But it notes that textGrain "does not guarantee … Read the full story at The Verge.
is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking “matched or exceeded”…
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