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OpenAl Is Adding Text Watermarks in the EU Because Regulation Works (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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Huh, the government seems to have tools to make companies comply. Strange.

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[-] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 data^1

[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] moth@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 week ago

this doesn't work remotely as well as the writer of this article seems to think. furthermore, it doesn't apply to all AI corporations. nor could it be enforced against open weight models, since every single one of those models is available in abliterated versions created by end users that remove guardrails and censorship put in place by the creators. these abliterated models are capable and willing to help users with things governments would define as illegal.

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