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OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it exists and works but that its simply not in their best interest to have people use it and be found out that they used chatgpt, for OpenAI's business/profit potential. I have nothing to back it up but have just lost all faith in OpenAI.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Im willing to believe it exists, but not that its any good. 99% is a crazy accuracy claim.

[–] pup_atlas@pawb.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I van totally believe that it detects AI generated content 99% of the time, that’s trivial. What I really wanna know is the false positive rate. If I write a program that flags everything, it’d have a 100% hit rate. It’d also however have a crazy high false positive rate.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Especially if the claim that it's undetectable by humans.

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They sell the cheating tool and the detection software

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's really sweet to play the arms race with oneself.