ChatGPT can help you fool OpenAI’s anti-cheating tool

Despite ChatGPT’s effort to address concerns around academic cheating, ChatGPT itself will help you get around its new AI detection technology.

When OpenAI announced its new AI-detection tool Tuesday, the company suggested that it could help deter academic cheating by using  its own wildly popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT.

But in a series of informal tests conducted by NBC News, the OpenAI tool struggled to identify text generated by ChatGPT. It especially struggled when ChatGPT was asked to write in a way that would avoid AI detection.

The detection tool, which OpenAI calls its AI Text Classifier, analyzes texts and then gives it one of five grades: “very unlikely, unlikely, unclear if it is, possibly, or likely AI-generated.” The company said the tool would provide a “likely AI-generated” grade to AI-written text 26% of the time. 

The tool arrives as the sudden popularity of ChatGPT has brought fresh attention to the issue of how advanced text generation tools can pose a problem for educators. Some teachers said the detector’s hit-or-miss accuracy and lack of certainty could create difficulties when approaching students about possible academic dishonesty.

“It could give me sort of degrees of certainty, and I like that,” Brett Vogelsinger, a ninth grade English teacher at Holicong Middle School in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, said. “But then I’m also trying to picture myself coming to a student with a conversation about that.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/chatgpt-can-help-fool-openais-anti-cheating-tool-rcna68855

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