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OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 3 months ago by PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] Womble@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

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