Edward Tian, a Princeton student, alongside Sreejan Kumar who developed GPTZero – an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written, recently announced the launch of a new model GPTZeroX.

GPTZeroX responds to the feedback received, where the beta performs poorly with edge cases, shortened text, and AI created writing that’s been lightly or substantially edited later. The improved model successfully services these cases, and adeptly handles text that combines both AI and human writing together.

An additional feature that sets GPTZeroX apart from the previous model (particularly GPTZero) is that it will highlight the portions of the text that are likely AI generated and transparent, providing you all the probabilities. It will also tell you if the text is completely human generated.

Thus the upcoming GPT ZeroX will be able to 

• Detect “edited” AI text
• Highlight parts written by AI, not just give a score

The model is likely to be rolled out next week as per an update on Tian’s newsletter.

GPTZero and GPTZeroX are among the various efforts to identify content generated by AI or ChatGPT-like platforms. The GPTZero app processes submitted text for indicators of AI origins like randomness and complexity in how it is written, technically referred to as “perplexity and burstiness”. 

In his Twitter thread, Tian tested GPTZero on various posts published by companies on various social media platforms like Linkedin and Twitter, to check its effectiveness. In a blog dated Jan 5, Tian wrote that over 10000+ have tried and tested the beta on the Streamlit version. 

Meanwhile, OpenAI is also looking at addressing the concerns of ChatGPT, where it is looking to build identification features like watermarking and other features similar to its other AI generative tool DALL.E. 

American Venture Capitalist Paul Graham dubbed the use of AI to pass off content as your one as ‘AIgiarism’. He further adds, “I think the rules against AIgiarism should be roughly similar to those against plagiarism.” So, like the plagiarism industry, we can expect the AI industry to give birth to detection services (like plagiarism was for the internet) to catch all parts of the text generated by AI. Therefore, we can expect something like ChatGPT detectors to have a bigger market than ChatGPT itself.  

Apart from launching the model, Tian is also in talks with school boards and scholarships to service GPTZeroX to institutions.