Artificial intelligence, text generation tools and ChatGPT – does digital watermarking offer a solution?

Abstract Text generation tools, often presented as a form of generative artificial intelligence, have the potential to pose threat integrity educational system. They can be misused afford students marks and qualifications that they do not deserve. The emergence recent such ChatGPT, appear left community unprepared, despite fact computer science has been working develop improve tools for years. This paper provides an introduction text intended non-specialist audience, discussing types assessments outsource, showing type prompts used generate text, illustrating one possible watermarking technique may allow generated detected. A small-scale study into suggests this is feasible show technical promise but should relied on solution widespread use intelligence based by students. Alternative solutions are needed, including encouraging work with rather than against it. As such, concludes seven areas further exploration.