OpenAI Quietly Shuts Down Flawed AI Detection Tool
OpenAI has quietly shut down its AI detection tool, AI Classifier, due to its low rate of accuracy in distinguishing between text written by humans and text generated by AI. The tool, which was intended to help educators identify AI-generated content, was found to be unreliable on shorter texts and often mislabeled human-written text as AI-generated. OpenAI stated that it is researching more effective techniques for text provenance and is committed to developing mechanisms to detect AI-generated audio or visual content. The decision to shut down the tool comes amid concerns about students using AI chatbots like ChatGPT to write essays.
