OpenAI is working on a tool to watermark AI-generated text to prevent misuse

This seems like a waste of energy. There is not enough text generated at once to be able to tell confidently if something is AI generated or not. Additionally, I'd imagine in adversarial applications, adding an extra step to reword certain things, using dictionary synonyms and phrases, unifying punctuation, and using a secondary grammar check/modifier like Grammarly is trivial.

Open alternatives, like GPT2, have already been released under an MIT license. Community language model trained on NSFW text already exist as well. In my opinion, a move like this would only push away most people in the long term. Given the choice between a non-censored good enough model, and a censored great model, I would choose the good enough model for 99% of my long term projects.

Won’t this be easy to defeat? Run the output through a translation model. English to whatever language, then back to English.

I use GPT to rewrite my text with better grammar and flow. I guess it will be marked as spam now ?

It will work unless some other party releases the same AI, but without a watermark.

The potential is seen now. if you restrict it too much, people will develop their own. A open source alternative to openai is sorely needed.

>unnoticeable

If I know you put steganography in there I can make damn sure it doesn't stay in, for small enough chunks of text.