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The people who created ChatGPT, OpenAI, have heard criticism of their AI chatbot. Namely, those from teachers who were concerned that students were using ChatGPT to do their homework or write papers for them.
On Tuesday, OpenAI released a new AI classification tool (Opens in a new window) that is meant to directly address these concerns. OpenAI created a free web tool to help people determine if a block of text was written by a person or by a computer.
It is easy to use the tool. Just go to the AI classifier, log in, and copy-paste the block of text you want to check. The classifier will then rank the text on a scale from likely to highly unlikely to show how likely it is that it was created by AI.
Although this seems like a great way to address some concerns about writing AI text, OpenAI makes it clear that there are some caveats. For example, OpenAI says that “the classifier is not completely reliable”.
“In our tests on a learning “challenge set” of English texts, our classifier correctly identified 26% of the AI-written text as “probably AI-written” (true positives), while mislabeling 9% of the AI-written text. human-written text as AI-written (false positives),” the company said in a blog post (Opens in a new window).
In their announcement, OpenAI talked about some of the other issues with the classifier. For example, the classifier does a much worse job with text that is less than 1000 words. Sometimes you can confuse text written by a person with text made by a computer. And it works best with text written in English.
OpenAI isn’t the first company to create a tool that can help tell when text was created by a computer. In fact, it’s not the first time the company has created a tool to help people classify things. OpenAI plans for this new tool to be “significantly more reliable” than the one it replaced. It is also interesting that one of the leaders in AI is constantly working on this type of tool.
Still, there is a long way to go before teachers and educators can rely on AI detection tools to find cheating in the classroom.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn