A College Kid Built an App That Sniffs Out Text Penned by AI

Jan 4 2023 by The Daily Beast

 
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Edward Tian was fast asleep when his bot broke a website.

The 22-year-old senior at Princeton spent his winter break in his local coffee shop creating GPTZero, an app that he claimed would be able to “quickly and efficiently” tell if an essay was written by a human or by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. When he uploaded it to the app creating and hosting platform Streamlit, he didn’t expect it to get that much attention.

“I was expecting, at most, a few...

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