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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
OpenAI Is Adding Text Watermarks in the EU Because Regulation Works
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
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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.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by The Verge
WorldPingHuh, the government seems to have tools to make companies comply. Strange.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Gizmodo
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to detect, it says.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by TechCrunch
An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by The Verge
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