Student’s new favorite has been the OpenAI chatbot called ChatGPT however teachers too have gotten their tech support in the form of ZeroGPT.
As the craze for ChatGPT continues, its alarmingly convincing articles have been used extensively by schools and university students. But as the AI chatbot passes entrance exams for law and business schools, and leaves teachers struggling to identify plagiarized text, OpenAI may have a solution. The company behind ChatGPT has now introduced ZeroGPT – an AI text classifier that ‘may’ be able to detect how the article in question was created.
ChatGPT stated that “An AI text classifier is an algorithm that uses machine learning techniques to categorize text data into predefined categories or labels,” however, shockingly, the organization was unaware of the detector tool’s existence.
As per the website, ZeroGPT is an ‘advanced and reliable ChatGPT detector tool’ that works much in the same manner as online plagiarism tests. Users have to upload text for checking onto the site, ZeroGPT then explains which parts were ‘AI or GPT generated’.
In a statement, the chatbot stated that “…A text classifier like ZeroGPT may be trained on a large dataset of both AI-generated and human-generated text to learn the patterns and features that differentiate the two,”
Efforts to test out the tool however indicated that it was not foolproof. A trial run indicated that efforts to ‘train’ ChatGPT using human-written articles as reference could lead to inconsistent results from ZeroGPT.
“We really don’t recommend taking this tool in isolation because we know that it can be wrong and will be wrong at times – much like using AI for any kind of assessment purposes,” Lama Ahmad, policy research director at OpenAI, said.
