Prakriti Deb, Pune
In January, OpenAI released a tool that could identify material produced by generative AI programs like ChatGPT. But it now appears that the OpenAI tool has been purged. The San Francisco-based AI firm quietly terminated its AI Classifier AI detection program. This occurred as a result of the application’s poor accuracy rate.
A post on the blog that had previously introduced AI Classifier read, “As of July 20, 2023, the AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy. We are working to incorporate feedback and are currently researching more effective provenance techniques for text, and have made a commitment to develop and deploy mechanisms that enable users to understand if audio or visual content is AI-generated.”
The AI classifier was trained to distinguish between material authored by humans and AI from a variety of sources. OpenAI had said when the program was first introduced that it was being made accessible to the general public in order to get opinions on the potential utility of such tools.
When it first debuted, OpenAI also listed the AI Classifier’s shortcomings, noting that:
- It was inaccurate in short texts and prone to misclassifying larger texts.
- It occasionally labeled content produced by humans as AI-generated.
- The program struggled with code and other languages and was only advised for use in English.
Since the introduction of technologies like ChatGPT, the majority of professionals have used AI to assist them in creating essays and proposals. The termination of AI Classifier has come as a downer for educators throughout the world who have been unable to recognise content produced by AI.