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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just need to get AI on that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Aren't there very few student priced ai writers? And isn't the writing done on their servers? And aren't they saving all the outputs?

Can't the ai companies sell to schools the ability to check paper submissions against recent outputs?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In a related FAQ, they also officially admit what we already know: AI writing detectors don't work, despite frequently being used to punish students with false positives.

In July, we covered in depth why AI writing detectors such as GPTZero don't work, with experts calling them "mostly snake oil."

That same month, OpenAI discontinued its AI Classifier, which was an experimental tool designed to detect AI-written text.

Along those lines, OpenAI also addresses its AI models' propensity to confabulate false information, which we have also covered in detail at Ars.

"Sometimes, ChatGPT sounds convincing, but it might give you incorrect or misleading information (often called a 'hallucination' in the literature)," the company writes.

Also, some sloppy attempts to pass off AI-generated work as human-written can leave tell-tale signs, such as the phrase "as an AI language model," which means someone copied and pasted ChatGPT output without being careful.


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Couldn't you just ask ChapGPT whether it wrote something specific?

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