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OpenAI to watermark ChatGPT text in the EU under AI Act compliance
Oct 5, 2026SOURCE: techcrunch.com
SO WHAT
This compliance push treats provenance as a detection problem, but the inversion makes authorship more fluid inside the thousand-day window.
OpenAI says it will watermark ChatGPT and Codex outputs in the EU. It also warns edits can reduce detectability—signal, not certainty.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.