OpenAI is starting to watermark ChatGPT text in Europe. On October 5, 2026 it published "textGrain," a statistical signal hidden in the words an LLM picks. API customers worldwide can opt in…
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OpenAI is starting to watermark ChatGPT text in Europe. On October 5, 2026 it published "textGrain," a statistical signal hidden in the words an LLM picks. API customers worldwide can opt in today; eligible ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU will get the invisible watermark over the coming weeks.
The technique ties each sampled token to keyed randomness and caps how much randomness the watermark can consume, so its strength has a direct information-theoretic meaning. OpenAI reports about 95 percent true-positive detection at a 1 percent false-positive rate on 400-token psychology passages, dropping to 80 percent at 200 tokens and lower still on math.
The honest limit: swapping 25 percent of words for synonyms cuts detection from 92 percent to 17 percent. The detector stays closed to approved researchers, and a missing signal does not prove a human wrote the text.
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