This AI detection tool raised $3.5 million to check the internet for computer-generated work
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They want to see this built toward a journalism-use case, because combating disinformationand it being a filter for the internetis seen as important, says Edward Tian, the 22-year-old founder of GPTZero. Since launch, 1.2 million people have registered with the tool.The tool analyzes text for its perplexity and burstinesstwo measures of how complex and varied writing isto determine whether it is likely generated by an AI or not. That approach is not without its flaws: An April 2023 research paper from Stanford University academics found that AI detection tools like GPTZero often unfairly categorized text written by non-native English speakers as AI-produced because of a lack of variance in their writing. Tian believes that GPTZero is uniquely placed to succeed because of the design issues inherent in the current generation of GPT technology and the importance of identifying where content has been made using those AI tools. Tian says that the funding will allow GPTZero staff to devote their labor full time to the project, improving the tool to meet the demands created by the volume of generative AI being posted to the internet.