College Student Made App That Exposes AI-Written Essays - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: ChatGPT's artificial intelligence generated dialogue has gotten pretty sophisticated -- to the point where it can write convincing sounding essays. So Edward Tian, a computer science student at Princeton, built an app called GPTZero that can "quickly and efficiently" label whether an essay was written by a person or ChatGPT. In a series of recent tweets, Tian provided examples of GPTZero in progress; the app determined John McPhee's New Yorker essay "Frame of Reference" to be written by a person, and a LinkedIn post to be created by a bot. On Twitter, he said he created the app over the holidays, and was motivated by the increasing possibility of AI plagiarism. Further reading: 1. OpenAI is developing a watermark to identify work from its GPT text AI; 2. OpenAI's attempts to watermark AI text hit limits; 3. A metadata'watermark' could be the solution to ChatGPT plagiarism fears.