OpenAI, Google, others pledge to watermark AI content for safety: White House

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OpenAI, Alphabet and Meta Platforms have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated content to help make the technology safer, President Joe Biden announced on Friday. «These commitments are a promising step but we have a lot more work to do together,» Biden said.

At a White House event, Biden addressed growing concerns about the potential for artificial intelligence to be used for disruptive purposes, saying «we must be clear-eyed and vigilant about the threats from emerging technologies» to US democracy. The companies — which also include Anthropic, Inflection, Amazon.com and OpenAI partner Microsoft — pledged to thoroughly test systems before releasing them and share information about how to reduce risks and invest in cybersecurity.

The move is seen as a win for the Biden administration's effort to regulate the technology, which has experienced a boom in investment and consumer popularity. «We welcome the president's leadership in bringing the tech industry together to hammer out concrete steps that will help make AI safer, more secure, and more beneficial for the public,» Microsoft said in a blog post on Friday.

Since generative AI, which uses data to create new content like ChatGPT's human-sounding prose, became wildly popular this year, lawmakers around the world began considering how to mitigate the dangers of the emerging technology to national security and the economy. The US lags the EU in tackling artificial intelligence regulation.