OpenAI is creating a watermark to determine work from its GPT textual content AI

A cryptographic instrument inserts a detectable signature within the phrases produced by OpenAI’s text-generating synthetic intelligence fashions. It might assist lecturers cease college students utilizing AIs to do their homework

By Matthew Sparkes

Synthetic intelligence agency OpenAI is creating a solution to forestall folks taking textual content that AI fashions produce and passing it off as their very own work.

The watermark-like safety characteristic might assist lecturers and teachers spot college students who’re utilizing textual content mills equivalent to OpenAI’s GPT to write down essays for them, however cryptography specialists say workarounds will inevitably be discovered.

Scott Aaronson on the College of Texas at Austin, who’s spending a yr working with …