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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 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yup, noticable that they use the phrase "99.9% effective". Effective doesnt have a defined meaning in this contect, unlike accuracy, sensitivity or specificity, so that smells of missleading PR speak to me.