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OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex

Global Published 5 October 2026, 23:08 · archived 5 Oct 2026

An invisible, machine-readable watermark in text output is rolling out to ChatGPT and Codex, but only for users in the European Union at first. OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking "matched or exceeded" other approaches like Google DeepMind's SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic announced in August. Like OpenAI, Anthropic […]

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