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ChatGPT detector could help spot cheaters using AI to write essays

A tool called GPTZero can identify whether text was produced by a chatbot, which could help teachers tell if students are getting AI to help with their homework

By Alex Wilkins

17 January 2023

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People can use OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate almost any text they want

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A web tool called GPTZero can identify whether an essay was generated by the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT with high accuracy. This could help identify cheating in schools and misinformation, but only if OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot, continues to give access to the underlying AI models.

OpenAI is reportedly working on inserting a watermark to text that its models generate. But in the time since ChatGPT became publicly available in December 2022, millions of people…

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