OpenAI selected Professor Martin Vechev to evaluate invisible watermarks in AI-generated text. How widely should such marking be required?
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ETH Zurich announced that OpenAI had selected Professor Martin Vechev to test and evaluate its new text watermarking technology. Vechev is a computer science professor at ETH Zurich and the scientific director of Bulgaria's INSAIT institute. OpenAI's textGrain technology embeds an invisible statistical signal in AI-generated text. The company has announced a phased introduction of watermarking while independent researchers examine its reliability and limitations. Detection errors, rewritten content and short passages remain significant technical challenges.