OpenAI has confirmed that it is working on a text watermarking method. The text watermarking method, according to OpenAI, is accurate and “even effective against localized tampering, such as paraphrasing, it is less robust against globalized tampering.” However, the US-based artificial intelligence company has kept it on hold over concerns about stigmatization of use of AI as a useful writing tool for non-native English speakers.
OpenAI’s watermarking can be described as the process of regulating the model’s predictions of the word and phrase that are going to come up next to create a pattern that can be noticed.
Reportedly, the company feels that watermarking is the right thing to do, but also believes watermarking could prevent people from using ChatGPT.
Watermarking, however, can prove to be an effective way to find out if a content was written by AI. According to reports the company has said that the watermarking does not affect the quality of content produced by ChatGPT.
OpenAI said that it is exploring embedding metadata, too. "For example, unlike watermarking, metadata is cryptographically signed, which means that there are no false positives. We expect this will be increasingly important as the volume of generated text increases. While text watermarking has a low false positive rate, applying it to large volumes of text would lead to a large number of total false positives," said OpenAI in a blogpost.
See What’s Next in Tech With the Fast Forward Newsletter
Tweets From @varindiamag
Nothing to see here - yet
When they Tweet, their Tweets will show up here.
