College student claims app can detect essays written by chatbot ChatGPT

A 22-year-old college student has developed an app which he claims can detect whether text is written by ChatGPT, the explosive chatbot raising fears of plagiarism in academia. Edward Tian, a senior at Princeton University, developed GPTZero over a summer break. It had 30,000 hits within a week of its launch. Tian said the motivation was to address the use of artificial intelligence to evade anti-plagiarism software to cheat in exams with quick and credible academic writing. His initial tweet, which claimed the app could "quickly and efficiently" detect whether an essay had been written by artificial intelligence, went viral with more than 5m views.