Since its launch in November, ChatGPT has disrupted various industries — from real estate to law. However, in the context of academia, teachers have growing concerns about whether using the tool is considered cheating.

ChatGPT, created by artificial intelligence company OpenAI, has the power to create essays, poetry, draft legal documents and more when given a prompt. While the results may need some editing, the tool’s efficiency has garnered worldwide attention for its accuracy.

Public schools in Seattle and New York City have already banned the use of the tool over cheating concerns and its power to disrupt genuine learning. Now, OpenAI has announced a new feature that may help teachers spot the presence of ChatGPT in essays and other assignments, CNN reported.

The feature, called “AI text classifier,” is similar to the plagiarism software Turnitin in that when submitting a body of text, the tool will rate the input on a scale ranging from “likely generated by AI” to “very unlikely.”

While educators have been longing for such a tool to combat the increasing use of ChatGPT, OpenAI has admitted that the new feature is “imperfect” and should be “taken with a grain of salt,” CNN reported.

“We really don’t recommend taking this tool in isolation because we know that it can be wrong and will be wrong at times – much like using AI for any kind of assessment purposes,” Lama Ahmad, policy research director at OpenAI, told the outlet.

“We are emphasizing how important it is to keep a human in the loop … and that it’s just one data point among many others.”

Despite the imperfection of the new feature, OpenAI told CNN that the decision to release the “AI text classifier” has to do with hopefully deterring individuals from claiming AI text was composed by a human, as well as addressing the question of whether humans have a right to know if they are interacting with artificial intelligence.

“This question is much bigger than what we are doing here; society as a whole has to grapple with that question,” Jan Leike, a lead on the OpenAI alignment team, told CNN.

Words to Learn 相关词汇

【颠覆】diānfù disrupt cause radical change in an industry or market by means of innovation

【持保留态度】chí bǎoliú tàidù with a grain of salt skeptically, with reservations

自 11 月推出以来，ChatGPT 已经颠覆了从房地产到法律的各行各业。然而，在学术界，教师们越来越担心学生使用该工具是否应该视为作弊。

人工智能公司OpenAI开发了ChatGPT，这个智能软件可以根据提示词撰写论文，创作诗歌，起草法律文件等。虽然输出的文本可能需要进一步编辑，但该工具的准确高效引起了全世界的关注。

西雅图和纽约市的公立学校已经禁止使用该软件，因为有作弊嫌疑，而且使用该工具妨碍了自主学习。据CNN报道， OpenAI已经发布了一项新功能，可以帮助教师在论文和其他作业中甄别学生是否使用了ChatGPT生成文件。

该功能称为“AI文本鉴别器”，类似于防抄袭软件Turnitin，提交了文本正文后，该工具将从“可能由AI生成”到“非常不可能”的等级对输入文本进行评级。

据CNN报道，虽然教育工作者一直渴望有这样的工具来防止学生越来越多地依赖ChatGPT，但OpenAI承认这项新功能还“不完美”，必须对它“持保留态度”。

“我们实在不建议孤立地使用这个工具，因为我们知道它可能会出错，有时肯定是出了错 —— 我们用AI进行任何其他类型的评估时一样不可避免会出错，”OpenAI政策研究总监拉玛•艾哈迈德告诉CNN。

“我们一直强调有人参与评估是多么重要......这个功能只是众多数据点中的一个。

尽管新功能不完善，但OpenAI告诉CNN，发布“AI文本鉴别器”是希望能阻止某些人使用AI文本代替应该由人完成的工作，以及解决这样的诉求：人们有权知道和他们聊天的是不是人工智能。

“这个问题比我们在这里做的事情要重要得多;整个社会必须努力解决这个问题，”OpenAI协同团队负责人扬•雷克告诉CNN。

(SD-Agencies)