OpenAI, whose online chatbot ChatGPT made waves when it was debuted in December, announced this week that a commercial version of the service, called ChatGPT Plus, would soon be available to users in the United States. — Leon Neal/Getty Images/TNS
Some experts worry that the company’s detection program could lead to wrongly accusing students of plagiarism. Some of the world’s largest tech companies scrambled to catch up. Last week, Microsoft revealed it was integrating ChatGPT’s technology into its Bing search engine. Google followed with its own version, called Bard. “It’s going to change everything,” said Jake Carr, an English teacher in Chico, earlier this month.
But the company’s text classifier is late to the game. In early January, Princeton student Edward Tian built GPTZero, a tool with the tagline “humans deserve the truth.”