OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, says it has built an AI content detector

The company behind ChatGPT, the popular generative AI platform, has reportedly built a tool that can detect AI-generated content. This is according to reports by The Wall Street Journal and verified by TechCrunch. However, they have not yet released it and are contemplating whether it should be released.

The launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, gave rise to AI-generated content. Students, marketers, bloggers, and many others began relying on a few prompts to generate substantial content with minimal input. Soon after, Google launched Bard, now called Gemini. Then other generative AI platforms emerged, creating a massive generative AI buzz.

It is now surprising that OpenAI, which charges users $20 per month to access its most advanced model, is planning to police the process it created.

From available information, the company plans to watermark texts it generates so they can be detected easily. Just like images and videos are watermarked, they plan to watermark text generated by their chatbot.

In a previous blog post, the company had said the text watermarking method is “highly accurate and even effective against localized tampering, such as paraphrasing.” However, they expressed concerns that the “text watermarking method has the potential to disproportionately impact some groups. For example, it could stigmatize the use of AI as a useful writing tool for non-native English speakers.”

It remains to be seen how this will play out and what the public reception will be.