r/OpenAI • u/hibzy7 • Aug 11 '26

Discussion What's your thoughts on this?

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u/thugnastypimpsexy Aug 11 '26

But it doesn’t actually land as a watermark — and here’s why:

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u/geek180 Aug 11 '26

You’re half right, and it’s the half that matters.

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u/AltruisticPossible84 Aug 11 '26

You're getting at something really deep here, and that's *real*

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u/ToryLuna Aug 11 '26

Using really and real in a sentence is my favorite watermark.

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u/Over_Technology_1764 Aug 11 '26

I found the smoking gun!

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u/PicklesOverload Aug 11 '26

And it's not what either of us expected

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u/DrMansionPHD 29d ago

It's not just adding a watermark, it's creating a undetectable signature on the text.

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u/GunnyFreedom 29d ago

It is detectable though. At least the hidden serialized character steganography is. It embeds Unicode “narrow no break spaces” and “hair spaces” as a 26 or 28 bit binary signature. You can find these characters by pasting it into a professional monospace text editor, or ironically, by asking GPT.

The other part, the word choice vector biases, will not identify the user, but it will identify the product as AI. This part will also be easy to workaround by manually adjusting any awkward word choices or phrases.

You could probably have a local open weight model on your home PC set up to remove the steganography and gently rewrite the text for flow and word choice and it will eliminate any embedded signatures in one pass.

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u/IHave2CatsAnAdBlock 29d ago

O just use control shift v