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The company has come up with a way to overlay AI-produced text with a kind of watermark.
This embedded indicator might achieve the goal of divining when AI has written some content.
OpenAI’s new method would employ algorithms capable of embedding subtle markers in text generated by ChatGPT.
It’s also similar to a tactic already employed by OpenAI for its AI-generated images.
But words are not the same as images.
OpenAI is worried that the negative consequences of releasing this kind of AI watermarking will outweigh any positive impact.
This might disproportionately affect non-English users of ChatGPT, who employ translations and make content in a different language.
Notably, this isn’t OpenAI’s firstAI text detectorforay.