OpenAI pulls the plug on AI Classifier, its tool to detect AI-generated content

AI classifier was launched in January to help educators, journalists and researchers.

The company said that it was working towards incorporating feedback and are currently researching to offer more effective solutions. (Express Image/ OpenAI)

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With AI becoming more efficient in terms of written content, detecting AI-generated content from that produced by humans is becoming increasingly difficult. This has been one of the biggest worries of educators worldwide. In January, OpenAI introduced a tool that could detect content that had been created by generative AI tools such as ChatGPT.

However, now, it seems the tool from OpenAI has been purged. The San Francisco-based AI startup quietly shut down its AI detection application known as AI Classifier. This was because the application had a low rate of accuracy. The company said that it was working towards incorporating feedback and are currently researching to offer more effective solutions.

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“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,” read a post on the blog that earlier introduced the AI Classifier.

The AI classifier was trained to differentiate between text written by humans and AI from a variety of providers. When launching the application, OpenAI had announced that it was making it publicly available to get feedback on whether imperfect tools like this one could be useful

Upon launch, OpenAI also cited the limitations of the AI Classifier saying that it should not be solely relied upon for making decisions. The classifier was unreliable in short texts and was prone to mislabelling longer texts. Occasionally it classified human-written text as AI-generated. The tool was only recommended for English and performed poorly with coding and other languages.

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OpenAI had also acknowledged the challenges involved for educators while detecting AI-generated content. The company had created the tool as a resource to help educators, journalists, and researchers study misinformation.

With the launch of tools such as ChatGPT, most professionals have been using AI to help them with drafting essays and proposals. The shutting down of AI Classifier has come as a downer for educators worldwide who have been struggling to identify AI-generated content.

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