OpenAI brings text watermarking to its API — and unlike Anthropic, it’s off by default

OpenAI has announced that developers can now opt in to watermarking text generated through its API, as the company extends its existing content provenance efforts to one of the more difficult forms of AI output to reliably identify. In a blog post published on Monday , the company details a new system dubbed textGrain, which embeds a “statistical signal” into generated text by subtly influencing the words a model chooses — for example, favoring one suitable word over another when either would make sense in a sentence. Over a long enough passage, those choices form a pattern that OpenAI’s...

Source: The New Stack

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