Software to detect use of AI systems like ChatGPT activated in New Zealand
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- 06 Apr 2023
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Universities' arms-race against cheats took a step forward today with the activation of software that can detect the use of Artificial Intelligence systems such as ChatGPT.
Turnitin, which all eight New Zealand universities use, said it could now spot AI-generated material with 98 percent accuracy and it had switched on that ability for its New Zealand customers.
Academics told RNZ the update would help, but they doubted it would be effective for long or for students who knew sophisticated ways of using the tools.
Turnitin regional vice-president for the Asia Pacific, James Thorley, said the software estimated what percentage of a text was written by AI and highlighted the offending sentences.
Thorley said AI-generated work was harder to detect than other types of cheating.
"Each time that ChatGPT or any other AI writing tool generates anything it is unique so no two creations will ever be the same, so you cannot detect it in the same way that you detect copy-paste plagiarism from whatever source," he said.
"You're really looking for this difference between how an AI writer would write and how a human would write but obviously that's a lot more complex than simply matching the same text."
Testing indicated Turnitin would be effective even if students edited AI-produced work to make it look like their own, Thorley said. Read More…
