ChatGPT: OpenAI unveils AI Text Classifier to tame cheaters.

With a new tool that can assist teachers in determining whether a student or artificial intelligence did the coursework, ChatGPT’s creator is attempting to reduce its reputation as a free-roaming cheating machine.

Following weeks of debate at schools and colleges over concerns that ChatGPT’s capacity to write virtually anything on demand could encourage academic dishonesty and impede learning, OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled its new AI Text Classifier.

OpenAI warns that its new tool, like other ones already on the market, is not perfect. Jan Leike, leader of the OpenAI alignment team tasked with making its systems safer, stated that the mechanism for detecting AI-written material “is flawed and it will be wrong sometimes.”

Because of that, Leike stated, “it shouldn’t be the only factor considered when making judgments.”

Millions of individuals began playing with ChatGPT when it went live as a free application on OpenAI’s website on November 30. Teenagers and college students were among them. The ease with which technology could answer take-home test questions and help with other assignments prompted fear among some educators, despite the fact that many found creative and safe ways to use it.

New York City, Los Angeles, and other significant public school systems started to obstruct its usage in classrooms and on school-owned devices by the time the New Year’s classes began.

According to Tim Robinson, a district spokesman, the Seattle Public Schools district first barred ChatGPT on all school devices in December before allowing educators who wanted to utilize it as a teaching tool access.

Robinson stated, “We can’t afford to ignore it.                  

According to Robinson, the district is also considering introducing ChatGPT into classrooms so that teachers can use it to assist students to develop their critical thinking skills and students may use it as a “personal tutor” or help them come up with new ideas when working on an assignment.

According to school districts across the nation, the discussion surrounding ChatGPT is developing swiftly.

The first thought was, “OMG, how are we going to stop all the cheating that will happen with ChatGPT,” according to Devin Page, a technology specialist with the Maryland district Calvert County Public School. He claimed that people are beginning to see that preventing “this is the future” is not the best course of action.

Page believes districts like his own will eventually unblock ChatGPT, especially once the company’s detection service is in place. “I think we would be naive if we were not aware of the dangers this tool poses, but we also would fail to serve our students if we banned them and us from using it for all its potential power,” said Page.

In a blog post published on Tuesday, OpenAI acknowledged the drawbacks of their plagiarism detection tool but added that in addition to preventing plagiarism, it might also help identify automated disinformation campaigns and other instances where AI has been used to imitate humans.

The program gets better at telling if something was written by a human or an AI the longer a chunk of text is. You can enter any text and the program will categorize it as “extremely unlikely, unlikely, unclear if it is, possibly, or likely” AI-generated. Examples of such texts include college applications essays and literary analyses of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.”

It’s difficult to understand how ChatGPT arrived at a conclusion, similar to how ChatGPT was taught on a vast collection of digitized books, newspapers, and online writings but frequently confidently spits out falsehoods or nonsense.

Leike stated, “We don’t really understand what kind of pattern it pays attention to or how it operates internally.”At this stage, there’s really not much we can say about how the classifier actually operates.”

Universities and other institutions of higher learning have started to discuss the ethical usage of AI. One of France’s most esteemed universities, Sciences Po, forbade its usage last week and issued a warning that anyone caught using ChatGPT or other AI tools to produce written or oral work covertly risked expulsion from Sciences Po and other institutions.

OpenAI stated that it has been working for several weeks to create new rules to support instructors in response to the criticism.

According to OpenAI policy researcher Lama Ahmad, “Like many other technologies, it’s possible that one district will determine that it’s not fit for usage in their classrooms. “We don’t really press them in a particular direction. We simply want to provide them with the knowledge they require to make the best decisions possible for themselves.

For the research-focused San Francisco firm, which is now supported by billions of dollars in investment from its partner Microsoft and is facing rising interest from the general public and governments, this is an extremely public role.

Following a meeting with OpenAI executives in California, including CEO Sam Altman, France’s minister for the digital economy Jean-Nol Barrot expressed his enthusiasm for the technology to a crowd at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a week later. A former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the French business school HEC in Paris, the government minister claimed that there are also challenging ethical issues that will need to be resolved.

Since ChatGPT, among other technologies, will be able to offer exams that are rather spectacular, he said, “If you’re in the law faculty, there is room for concern.” If you are in the economics faculty, you’re good to go because ChatGPT will struggle to locate or provide what is required of you in a graduate-level economics faculty.

According to him, it will become more crucial for users to comprehend the fundamentals of how these systems function so they are aware of any potential biases.