OpenAI Will Add A Digital Watermark To Text And Code Generated In The EU
This is to comply with the region's new AI transparency rules.
OpenAI just announced its plans to comply with part of the European Union's new AI transparency rules. The company will soon begin adding an invisible watermark to text and code generated in the EU. This follows a similar move by Anthropic earlier this year.
OpenAI is using a proprietary system called textGrain that "adds an invisible statistical signal to the model's word choices." Once added, a detector can spot these signals and ascertain if there's a watermark.
The company says the system "matched or exceeded" the performance of other approaches, like SynthID for text. However, it still cautions that "strong performance under ideal conditions does not guarantee reliable detection in everyday use."
That's corporate speak for "it may not always work." It admits that shorter text is harder to detect, with around an 80 percent success rate....
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