AI-Generated-Text-Detection Tools Reported for High Error Rates
January 3, 2023
Models developed to detect whether text generation AI was used such as AI Text Classifier and GPTZero reportedly contained high rates of false positive and false negative, such as mistakenly flagging Shakespeare's works.
- Alleged deployer
- openai, edward-tian
- Alleged developer
- openai, edward-tian
- Alleged harmed parties
- teachers, students
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/466
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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