OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the story as OpenAI introducing invisible text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex in the EU first. TechCrunch foregrounds compliance with the AI Act and notes that editing can make the marks harder to detect, while The Verge focuses more on the rollout details and says OpenAI described its method as matching or exceeding other approaches like Google DeepMind’s SynthID.

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