ChatGPT parent company, OpenAI, has ‘promising’ tool to detect AI content

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has developed a tool that can tell if the large language model has generated a piece of text, but it is hesitant to release it due to negative customer responses.

The detection tool involves text watermarking – making slight changes to how ChatGPT selects its words in a way that can be detected with a high degree of accuracy with a tool that knows the watermark.

According to The Wall Street Journal, releasing the detection tool would be “just a matter of pressing a button”...