OpenAI Adds Text Watermarks for EU Compliance, Sparking Quality Concerns
To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI will add watermarks to text and image outputs, following Anthropic's earlier global rollout. Reddit users debate whether the technique—injecting statistical signals by not always picking the optimal token—degrades output quality.
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