OpenAI Delays Release Of Technology To Help Schools Identify AI-Generated Academic Work, Citing Concerns Over Fairness: Report

OpenAI has reportedly decided to postpone the launch of a watermarking system for its ChatGPT text, despite having the technology ready for deployment for over a year.

What Happened: OpenAI divided on whether to release it due to potential revenue implications, reported Wall Street Journal last week, citing people familiar with the matter.

Despite the potential advantages, nearly 30% of ChatGPT users surveyed by the company, stated they would use the software less if watermarking was implemented.

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Following the report’s publication, OpenAI confirmed in an updated blog post on Sunday that it has been developing text watermarking.

The company stated that its method is highly accurate and resistant to tampering, but also vulnerable to circumvention by malicious actors through techniques like rewording with another model.

The AI startup also voiced concerns about the potential stigmatization of AI tools saying “text watermarking method has the potential to disproportionately impact some groups.”

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Why It Matters: The issue of AI tools being used for cheating in academic settings has been a topic of discussion. Noam Chomsky, also known as the father of modern linguistics, last year blasted ChatGPT, calling it “basically a high-tech plagiarism.”

However, previously, Deepwater’s Gene Munster said that students using these AI tools are on the right track.

“You have to embrace these tools to have a seat in the job market down the road. And it won't be just information workers, skilled labor will undoubtedly need to leverage AI to stay relevant,” Munster stated at the time.

Meanwhile, in May earlier this year, OpenAI unveiled new AI tools that can detect if an image was created using its DALL-E AI image generator and introduced advanced watermarking techniques to better identify the content it generates.

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