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Does ChatGPT add watermarks?
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Samuel Murray
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May 7

Hello everyone

TikTok is awash with people telling you how to remove ChatGPT watermarks. According to the videos, ChatGPT inserts invisible characters such as no-break spaces and zero-width spaces in random places. Some videos state that the watermarking only applies to certain engines. These videos often link to the character viewer soscisurvey.de/tools/view-chairs.php (now also available on GitHub).

Have any of you seen these watermarks? Is this a real thing? C... See more
Hello everyone

TikTok is awash with people telling you how to remove ChatGPT watermarks. According to the videos, ChatGPT inserts invisible characters such as no-break spaces and zero-width spaces in random places. Some videos state that the watermarking only applies to certain engines. These videos often link to the character viewer soscisurvey.de/tools/view-chairs.php (now also available on GitHub).

Have any of you seen these watermarks? Is this a real thing? ChatGPT itself claims that it does not use watermarking, but the answer that ChatGPT gave me refers to lexicon-based watermarking systems.

It feels like it would be unlikely since it would be relatively straight-forward to include a watermark remover to any AI tool.

Samuel

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Samuel Murray
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ChatGPT May 7

ChatGPT says that if its output contains hidden characters, it is due to a quirk in your browser.

chatgpt watermarking
 
Tom in London
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CheatGPT May 7

Samuel Murray wrote:

Hello everyone



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Daryo
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I can't any need for any watermarks ... May 7

Its insipid bland fake neutral 'writing style' makes the whole of CheatGPT's output an unmistakable watermark / 'proof of origin'.

Edward Potter
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Daryo
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I can't see any need for any watermarks ... May 7

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