OpenAI rolls out text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex, EU-only for now unlike Anthropic and Google

generativist · x · 2026-10-06

OpenAI is rolling out text watermarking (textGrain) in ChatGPT and Codex. Unlike Anthropic and Google, OpenAI is launching it only in the EU for now, not globally.

Commenters see the region-gated rollout as a pragmatic way to satisfy EU regulatory pressure without affecting users elsewhere.

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