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The Mark Travels With The Paste

On 5 October OpenAI said that text from ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union will soon carry an invisible watermark, while developers using its API anywhere can switch one on. Anthropic already marks Claude text everywhere, and says it cannot yet limit the mark by region.

The mark is a statistical pattern in word choices, and OpenAI's own tests show how easily it fades: replacing a quarter of the words with synonyms cut detection from about 92 percent to 17 percent. This episode explains where each default applies, what a mark can and cannot prove, and why a missing mark proves nothing.

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