May 7 (Reuters) - OpenAI is launching a tool that can

detect images created by its text-to-image generator DALL-E 3,

the Microsoft ( MSFT )-backed startup said on Tuesday amid

rising worries about the influence of AI-generated content in

this year's global elections.

The company said the tool correctly identified images

created by DALL-E 3 about 98% of the time in internal testing

and can handle common modifications such as compression,

cropping and saturation changes with minimal impact.

The ChatGPT creator also plans to add tamper-resistant

watermarking to mark digital content such as photos or audio

with a signal that should be hard to remove.

As part of the efforts, OpenAI has also joined an industry

group that includes Google, Microsoft ( MSFT ) and Adobe and plans to

provide a standard that would help trace origin of different

media.

In April, during the ongoing general election in India, fake

videos of two Bollywood actors that are seen criticizing Prime

Minister Narendra Modi have gone viral online.

The spread of AI-generated content and deepfakes are being

increasingly used in India and in elections elsewhere in the

world including in the U.S., Pakistan and Indonesia.

OpenAI said it is joining Microsoft ( MSFT ) in launching a $2

million "societal resilience" fund to support AI education.

(Reporting by Priyanka.G in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb

Chakrabarty)