ChatGPT's New Tool for Detecting Text Written by AI Doesn't Work Very Well
- In tests, software only identied AI-written text 26% of time
- Teachers have been struggling to cope with rise of ChatGPT
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OpenAI, which released the viral ChatGPT chatbot last year, unveiled a tool that’s intended to help show if text has been authored by an artificial intelligence program and passed off as human.
The tool will flag content written by OpenAI’s products as well as other AI authoring software. However, the company said “it still has a number of limitations — so it should be used as a complement to other methods of determining the source of text instead of being the primary decision-making tool.”