OpenAI's AI-generated text detector is never technically wrong, but it's still easy to trick

The world's most famous chatbot, ChatGPT, was released in late November of last year. The immediate response was astonishment, followed almost immediately by terror about its ramifications -- most notably that it might generate school essays for dishonest kids. Yesterday, almost exactly two months later, OpenAI, ChatGPT's parent company released what many users hope will be the antidote to the poison. OpenAI's "classifier for indicating AI-written text" is the company's latest invention, and it's as easy-to-use as one could want: Copy-paste text into the box, click "Submit," and get your result. But if you're expecting a straight answer, you're going to be disappointed.