It is a great business model: head you win, tail you win. Yes, ChatGPT will sell you a product which will help you to write nice essays with the help of AI. And will also sell another product to another company to help detect that you used AI to write that essay! But if you dig deeper, that playbook is right on the money. Indeed, ChatGPT wants you to begin the discovery from it but do not copy it verbatim for any purpose.
It is like a smart Wikipedia which no one copies Wikipedia verbatim for an assignment. You review Wikipedia and then come up in your own words whatever you have learnt. ChatGPT wants you to follow the same trajectory when dealing with it.
When you are a creator and also a detector, you can protect your castle because the moat will be solid. This company is closing the flanks and when you go into a business warfare and do that very well, according to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, victory will be near certain. OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, is a category-king company. It is already closing the flanks at scale, making it possible for a complementary product to emerge: buy the creator suite – and the detector suite. What a company!
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The maker of ChatGPT is trying to curb its reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine with a new tool that can help teachers detect if a student or artificial intelligence wrote that homework.
The new AI Text Classifier launched Tuesday by OpenAI follows a weeks-long discussion at schools and colleges over fears that ChatGPT’s ability to write just about anything on command could fuel academic dishonesty and hinder learning.
OpenAI cautions that its new tool – like others already available – is not foolproof. The method for detecting AI-written text “is imperfect and it will be wrong sometimes,” said Jan Leike, head of OpenAI’s alignment team tasked to make its systems safer.
“Because of that, it shouldn’t be solely relied upon when making decisions,” Leike said.
Teenagers and college students were among the millions of people who began experimenting with ChatGPT after it launched Nov. 30 as a free application on OpenAI’s website. And while many found ways to use it creatively and harmlessly, the ease with which it could answer take-home test questions and assist with other assignments sparked a panic among some educators.
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