ChatGPT Creator Just Launched an AI Detector. Let’s Put It To The Test!

Can we finally detect AI-written content?

The PyCoach
Artificial Corner

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In the past months, we’ve seen the launch of many tools that try to detect AI-written text.

However, only yesterday OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, launched its own text classifier that aims to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text. This is a free tool that has some limitations but it can still help you detect whether something was written by AI.

I’ve tested this tool with both human-written text and AI-written text. Here are the results.

Testing the AI Detector With a Text Written by Me

Let’s start by testing OpenAI’s new AI detector with a human-written text, but before we try this out, we have to keep in mind the limitations of this tool:

  • It requires a minimum of 1000 characters
  • The classifier isn’t always accurate
  • The classifier was primarily trained on English content written by adults

For the first test, I’ll copy the text from my article 4 Jobs That ChatGPT Will Change.

One reader said that it was written by ChatGPT in the comment section. Let’s find out whether it’s an…

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Artificial Corner

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