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OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text. It just won’t release it — A survey the company conducted of loyal ChatGPT users found nearly 30% would be turned off by the anticheating technology


Some say watermarking is the responsible thing to do, but it's complicated.

According to The Wall Street Journal, there's internal conflict at OpenAI over whether or not to release a watermarking tool that would allow people to test text to see whether it was generated by ChatGPT or not. The watermark would be undetectable by human readers without the tool, and the company's internal testing has shown that it does not negatively affect the quality of outputs. Finally, a blog post by OpenAI clarified that it is relatively easy for bad actors to bypass the watermark in its current form.

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