OpenAI
OpenAI has almost single-handily managed to fast-forward mainstream adoption of generative AI with its popular DALL-E image generators and ChatGPT. Now, it’s trying to develop AI classifiers to prevent those products from getting out of hand. The classifier, which is limited to text, attempts to scan through writing and make a determination as to whether not it was written by a human.
So far, it isn’t doing great. In its own evaluation, OpenAI says its classifier was only able to correctly identify 26% of AI-authored texts as “likely AI written. Worse still, the same system incorrectly labeled 9% of human-authored content as AI-written.
“Our classifier is not fully reliable,” OpenAI wrote. “It should not be used as a primary decision-making tool, but instead as a complement to other methods of determining the source of a piece of text.”
