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Home/Glossary/Watermarking
AI Glossary Term

What does “Watermarking” mean?

Definition

Embedding a detectable signal in AI-generated text or media so it can later be identified as machine-produced.

Related terms

Embedding
A numeric vector representation that captures semantic meaning of text, images, or other data.
Multimodal Model
A model that can process or generate multiple data types such as text, image, and audio.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Technology that converts text in images or scans into machine-readable text.
Word Embedding
A dense vector representation of words capturing semantic relationships.
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
A hypothetical AI system that can perform most intellectual tasks at a human level across many domains.
AI Agent
A software system that can observe, reason, and take actions to achieve a goal, often using tools and memory.

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