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OpenAI, the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT, announced the availability of a software tool to recognise text written by artificial intelligence in a blog post on Wednesday.
ChatGPT is a free application that creates text in response to a prompt, such as articles, essays, jokes, and even poetry, and it has acquired widespread popularity since its release in November, despite worries about copyright and plagiarism.
The AI classifier, a language model trained on a dataset comprising pairings of human-written and AI-written text on the same topic, seeks to differentiate AI-written text from human-written material. According to the firm, it engages a range of vendors to combat concerns such as automated disinformation campaigns and academic dishonesty.
In its public beta mode, OpenAI admits that the detection tool is inaccurate on texts of less than 1,000 characters, and that AI-written content may be altered to fool the classifier.
"We're making this classifier public to collect input on whether flawed tools like this one are useful," stated OpenAI.
"We recognise that detecting AI-written text has been a hot topic among educators, but as essential is understanding the limits and implications of AI-generated text classifiers in the classroom."
Since ChatGPT launched in November and acquired widespread popularity among millions of users, several of the country's top school districts, including New York City, have banned the AI chatbot due to worries that kids may use the text generator to cheat or plagiarise.
Others, such as GPTZeroX, have developed third-party detection tools to assist schools in detecting AI-generated material.
OpenAI stated that it is working with educators to examine ChatGPT's potential and limits, and that it will continue to work on AI-generated text identification.
