Huh, the government seems to have tools to make companies comply. Strange.
The access to which will only be given to “good guys”.
Its a not a product meant for end-users to filter AI generated text, rather its for the corpos to check if an end-user used AI for something.
I would love to see regulations work, but I’m convinced it’s watermarked so that OpenAI can filter out content generated with ChatGPT from its own training content[1]
Theres also the significant issue that it just limits access to unwatermarked image generation, not gets rid of it entirely. So state actors and sufficiently capable entities can still make disinformation and whatnot
Still very helpful harm reduction though
how can plain text be reliably watermarked
Based on “controlling” of a sampling set for a token prediction . Nice summary is here https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2026/claude-text-watermarking.html eg
This is also a really good explainer: https://declaude.org/watermarking/
An algorithm that prefers certain words over others, for specific inputs. The same way we encrypt data really.
