There is reason to think that waves of generic-sounding, mostly artificial intelligence-written essays might have reason to relax. Edward took a portion of his holiday to write GPTZero, an application that can identify text written by artificial intelligence.

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The proof-of-concept videos were posted on January 2nd. After determining that a human wrote a New Yorker article, it correctly identified the author of a Facebook post.

here's a demo with @nandoodles's Linkedin post that used ChatGPT to successfully respond to Danish programmer David Hansson's opinions pic.twitter.com/5szgLIQdeN

— Edward Tian (@edward_the6) January 3, 2023

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GPTZero scores text on its "perplexity and burstiness" – referring to how complicated it is and how randomly it is written.

The app was so popular that it crashed "due to unexpectedly high web traffic," and currently displays a beta-signup page. GPTZero is still available to use on Tian's Streamlit page, after the website hosts stepped in to increase its capacity.

The motivation for creating GPT Zero was academic in nature. He thought it was unlikely that high school teachers would want students to write history essays.

The creators of the product are concerned about how their product is used. One researcher recently said in a talk at a Texas university that they wanted it to be harder to take a GPT output and pass it off as a human.

According to the Guardian, Openai is working on a feature that will allow machine readers to spot buried patterns in theai's text selections.