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OpenAI launches textGrain watermarking for EU text provenance rules, keeping its detector closed to the public

Starting today, API customers can opt in to text watermarking; EU ChatGPT and Codex output gets an invisible watermark in coming weeks; detector access goes first to approved researchers only. OpenAI's own numbers show why the public cannot check text itself yet.

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By Kelly Intelligence
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