OpenAI reported has a way to detect if ChatGPT has created text with a 99.9% certainty, but it hasn’t made it available to the public.According to the Wall Street Journal, the project “ has been mired in internal debate” at OpenAI for two years, and has technically been ready to be released for around a year. The decision to hold it back lies in the company’s struggle between wanting to be transparent about the use of its product and wanting to attract new users.The idea, of course, being if you call a bunch of college students out for using your tool to write their research papers, then they ultimately won’t use your tool to write their research papers. It’s a win for professors but not for the cheaters and procrastinators amongst us.The tool would work by inserting a watermark of sorts into text created by ChatGPT. The watermark wouldn’t be visible to the human eye; however, when run through the AI-detection tool later on, the detector could provide a score on how likely it is that the text was created by ChatGPT.There is concern internally that watermarks could potentially be erased by translating the text into another language and back again through something like Google Translate. Also, employees warn that if too many people had access to the detection tool, bad actors would likely be able to figure out OpenAI’s watermarking technique, rendering the tool useless.
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An OpenAI spokesperson told The Journal that another concern is that the tool might disproportionally impact non-native English speakers. Those who want the tool released; however, argue the good it could do outweighs the bad.Google has a watermarking tool that can detect text created by its Gemini AI. That tool, called SynthID, is currently being beta tested but also is not available to the public.
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