New App GPTZero Can Detect if an Essay Was Authored by AI
It might seem that the days of AI-assisted or authored essays are coming to an end. That’s because a senior at Princeton University created an app to detect text written by AI. Over the last few months, the world of higher education has been on high alert as advancing AI technology is making it easier for students to pass off generated text as their own academic work. Tools such as ChatGPT have made it as simple as a few specific questions. But thanks to Edward Tian, it might not be so.
In a series of Tweets, the Princeton senior created an app that could detect if text was written by ChatGPT. Tian, who is a computer science major, spent part of his winter break creating the ChatGPT detector. Aptly named, GPTZero, he claims that his program can “quickly and efficiently” detect if the text was written by ChatGPT or a human. But now many of his fellow students are wondering, why?
According to Tian, his motivation is simple — fairness. Plagiarism, though easy, can have serious consequences as students make their way through their academic careers. Tian says in the Tweet explaining his reasoning, “The motivation here is increasing AI plagiarism. think are high school teachers going to want students using ChatGPT to write their history essays? likely not.” In a following Tweet, he goes on to state, “in short, there’s so much chatgpt hype going around. is this and that written by AI? we as humans deserve to know!”
In the following Tweet, Tian provides a demo of what his program can do:
Currently, the program is in beta and “barebones” according to Tian. But the young computer science major will be spending the ongoing weeks improving both the model and analysis of GPTZero. So far though, the program has found itself a strong following, as the following morning after his initial tweet, Tian found that his free Streamlit hosting account was struggling to handle the demand. Upon seeing this, a Developer a Streamlit @DataChaz, upgraded ChatZero’s hosting and memory capabilities for Tian.
Only time will tell how far this program will go, but it’s quite obvious that 2023 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for artificial intelligence. What do you think of these advances in AI? If you’re interested in discovering more, or even rubbing elbows with some of the leaders of AI, you’ll want to check out ODSC East 2023!
Originally posted on OpenDataScience.com
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