Our approach to EU text provenance rules
How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules.
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Key points
- Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.
- OpenAI will begin automatically watermarking text generated with ChatGPT in the European Union, the company has announced.
- It will also offer the watermarking feature in other regions, but it will be off by default outside of the EU.
- The same is likely true for OpenAI's watermark.
Sources (2)
- [1]Our approach to EU text provenance rulesOpenAI News · Oct 5, 03:00 PM
How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules.
Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.
- [2]OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EUArs Technica: AI · Oct 6, 08:50 PM
OpenAI will begin automatically watermarking text generated with ChatGPT in the European Union, the company has announced.
It will also offer the watermarking feature in other regions, but it will be off by default outside of the EU.
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