OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect ChatGPT-written content — company has mulled its release over the past year
www.tomshardware.com
OpenAI just needs to press a button and it will have a ChatGPT detector ready and available.

Am I missing something? The article seems to suggest it works via hidden text characters. Has OpenAI never heard of pasting text into a utf8 notepad before?

  • CameronDevEnglish
    121·
    4 months ago

    That is a long video, is the paper published somewhere?

    Im willing to accept that you can statistically “watermark” the text, but I’m not convinced that it would be tamper resistant, which is a large part of what makes a watermark useful. If it can’t survive an idiot with a thesaurus, its probably not gonna be terribly useful.

    • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      4 months ago

      It can likely also be defeated by adding “In the style of X” to a prompt, changing the distribution and pattern of the responses.

      • JackbyDevEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        …but that output is also from the AI so it would still be watermarked lol

        • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          You could feed it through a different, smaller model that could even be self-hosted. It isn’t difficult to make a model that rephrases an input in another style.

          • JackbyDevEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            Ah, okay. That’s fair. It wasn’t clear they meant a different system lol.