“Being able to write, or write original, will still be an important skill. So the value of writers will remain the same,” Tian said, adding that society will still have a constant demand. ownership of original prose even as AI is getting better at generating text.
“There is an implicit beauty in human writing.”
Use technology responsibly
The GPTZero app was overloaded shortly after launch, causing Streamlit’s online host to step in to support the larger web traffic.
Despite saying “there’s so much hype and excitement going around ChatGPT“, Tian does not object to the use of these tools.
GPTZero “is not a tool to prevent the use of these technologies. But with any new technology, we need to be able to adopt it responsibly and we need to take measures. protection,” Tian said. “That’s the main driver for GPTZero.”
“Pandora’s box” of technology
ChatGPT is the “Pandora’s box” of social media technology, Tian says, as it comes with the same pros and cons as any new technology.
“While it’s a great innovation, there are also a lot of downsides.”
People tend to write with many variations in sentences: wandering thoughts, long sentences next to short sentences, active sentences next to passive sentences. Meanwhile, AI-written text tends to be homogeneous, according to Tian.
Therefore, GPTZero uses two variables perplexity (“confusion”) and burstiness (“explosion”) to determine whether the text was written by a robot (bot) or a human.
Perplexity measures the complexity of the text. If a text is unfamiliar (embarrassing) to a bot, it’s more than likely written by a human. If the text is familiar to bots, it’s more than likely generated by AI.
Then, GPTZero uses the scale to evaluate the level and make the conclusion that the article is written by a person or AI.
Bao Huy