In the past few weeks, viral AI chatbot ChatGPT has passed a U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, sailed through four law exams at the University of Minnesota, and aced a test at Wharton School of Business.
Now, OpenAI has delivered a tool to fix a problem of its own making: the ‘classifier’, which will show whether text has been authored by an artificial intelligence bot, such as ChatGPT.
OpenAI warns “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.”
The tool will be available as a separate app, along with other resources for panicked teachers.
“While it is impossible to reliably detect all AI-written text, we believe good classifiers can inform mitigations for false claims that AI-generated text was written by a human: for example, running automated misinformation campaigns, using AI tools for academic dishonesty, and positioning an AI chatbot as a human,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post.
