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AI Incidents

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

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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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