When the world started to blow up over the release of
ChatGPT, educators, and especially English teachers, started panicking as their
first thought was that this is the end of essays and especially composition
teaching. The initial response was that we need to ban everything related to
the chatbot and to be able to do so effectively, we need to be able to catch
those cheaters. While I disagree with this view, I also recognize that implementing
new techniques takes time, and while we are working on those, we may need other
tools to check in with our students and their work.
The first AI generator detector that was publicized was built
by a college student, Edward Tian at Princeton. His version is just the first of many. I present the following collection in
hopes that you will use it not to punish your students but rather to help them
and yourself to recognize how they can make their own writing better with the
help of AI. The checkers can serve as a tool to see the differences between human
written and AI generated text. The possibilities are endless, and my suggestion
is to allow yourself and your students to play with them. Also keep in mind
that all of these detectors can produce both false negative and false positive
results.
GPTZero
The original ChatGPT detector by Edward Tian. There is a
premium option, but the free version can help you and your students improve
their work. The detector tells you whether the text entered is human written,
AI generated or a mixed content. It also highlights parts of the text it
believes to be AI created. Zou can check up to 5,000 characters at a time in the free version.
ZeroGPT
Free to use, understands multiple languages, and will tell
you whether the sample text entered is fully or partially AI generated.
Writer AI Content Detector
You can check a website for AI generated content or
copy-paste up to 1,500 characters into the textbox provided. Perfect to check
student work before they publish something online.
Content at Scale AI Detector
You can check longer texts (but at least a minimum of 25 words)
for AI generated content. This detector will provide a percentage mark on how
much of the text is not written by a human and highlight sections of the text
it believes to be AI generated. You could ask your students to use this free service
on their work before turning it in to you for grading.
GPT Detector by Writefull
You can check longer texts by copy-pasting them into the
textbook. The result will tell you what percentage it believes your text to
originate from GPT-3, GPT-4 or ChatGPT. They are still working on a version
that would be able to detect future iterations of the large language model and
the chatbot.
Open AI’s official AI Text Classifier
OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT released its own detector which
is free to use as long as you have an OpenAI account, which of course also provides
you access to the chatbot itself. It requires at least 1,000 characters and
warns users that it is not always fully accurate.
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