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Will OpenAI's new AI detection tool put an end to student cheating?


OpenAI claims its new method can identify - with 99.9% accuracy - when someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay or research paper. Here's why I'm skeptical.

PM Images/Getty Images OpenAI hasn't revealed in any detail how its new method can be near-perfect in identifying AI-written text. As OpenAI co-founder John Schulman said last year, "Our biggest concern was around factuality because the model likes to fabricate things." According to Mohamed Elgendy, co-founder and chief executive of Kolena, a machine learning testing service, "The rate of hallucinations will decrease, but it is never going to disappear -- just as even highly educated people can give out false information."

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