OpenAI, the creator of the chat-bot ChatGPT, has released a software tool to help identify text or content generated by the AI.
According to the company’s blog post on Wednesday, the AI classifier, a language model trained on the dataset of pairs of human-written and AI-written text on the same topic, aims to distinguish text that is written by AI.
ChatGPT is a conversational AI model developed by OpenAI. It is trained on a massive dataset of text from the internet and is designed to generate human-like responses to a given prompt. ChatGPT can be used for a variety of applications such as customer service chatbots, personal assistants, language translation, and more.
In its public beta mode, OpenAI acknowledges the detection tool is very unreliable on texts under 1,000 characters, and AI-written text can be edited to trick the classifier.
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“We’re making this classifier publicly available to get feedback on whether imperfect tools like this one are useful,” OpenAI said.
“We recognize that identifying AI-written text has been an important point of discussion among educators, and equally important is recognizing the limits and impacts of AI generated text classifiers in the classroom.”
Others have created third-party detection tools including GPTZeroX to help educators detect AI-generated text.