ChatGPT

Detecting AI-Generated Text

Did ChatGPT write this? We deserve to know.

Benedict Neo
The Startup
Published in
5 min readJan 15, 2023

--

Created with DALL-E 2 (source)

We're still in the early days of large language models (LLMs), but we already see how much influence it has on our world today.

ChatGPT, the mega-viral text generator everyone is using right now, is facing backlash.

ChatGPT Bans

Stack Overflow banned ChatGPT-generated answers due to their propensity for false information to technical questions.

The upcoming International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) in Honolulu has banned submissions that include text generated by LLMs.

New York City has banned ChatGPT, which affects 1,800 public schools, serving more than a million students.

If anything, fighting AI plagiarism will be one of the biggest themes of 2023, and who knows what will happen when GPT-4 is released.

The good news is that ongoing efforts seek to identify the GPT-generated outputs.

This article details those efforts.

Before we begin, can you tell if a text is written by a person or machine?

Here’s a fun game to find out!

--

--