Did a Robot Write This? We Need Watermarks to Spot AI
OpenAI is exploring ways to stealthily label words generated by its new chatbot. It can’t happen soon enough.
ChatGPT’s AI produced this in response to a query about watermarks.
A talented scribe with stunning creative abilities is having a sensational debut. ChatGPT, a text-generation system from San Francisco-based OpenAI, has been writing essays, screenplays and limericks after its recent release to the public, usually in seconds and often to a high standard. Even its jokes can be funny. Many scientists in the field of artificial intelligence have marveled at how humanlike it sounds.
And remarkably, it will soon get better. OpenAI is widely expected to release its next iteration known as GPT-4 in the coming months, and early testers say it is better than anything that came before.1