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I appreciate how this blog post provides a valuable opportunity for instructors to reflect on what they hope to accomplish with AI detection software, and what the cost of those efforts may be.
As the technology to generate writing with AI ramps up, so does the production of AI-detection tools that attempt to curtail “cheating” by using them. But the bevy of AI detection tools on the market aren’t keeping up with the speed of AI’s development. Because they are using older versions of GPT as the main component of their detection mechanism, they often misidentify human-composed text as AI-generated or confuse AI-generated text as human-generated. And while OpenAI is working on a watermarking scheme that uses cryptography to mark text generated by a transformer, even their lead engineer admits this would be easy to defeat by simply copying a generated output into a different language model.
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