The GPT2 Output Detector is currently the best free content detector to classify ChatGPT text. I extended the detector’s frontend to work for large texts, support custom file uploads, and allow parallel processing of many files. These new features make the GPT2 detector more usable and accessible. …

On January 31, 2023, OpenAI launched an updated free AI detector. The company said that they “recognize that identifying AI-written text has been an important point of discussion among educators”. The new tool attempts to help educators check if a student submitted AI-generated papers. The news comes following the release…

Is AI replacing human writing? — ChatGPT is growing on Twitter. ChatGPTBot and ReplyGPT are new Twitter bots that reply to tweets using ChatGPT. People are voicing concerns that AI will replace genuine writing. New extensions allow people to easily respond to tweets using ChatGPT. I gathered 100 tweets from the 100 most popular Twitter users…

On January 2, Edward Tian released GPTZero — an app designed to detect whether ChatGPT wrote some content. The app went viral on Twitter with over 7+ million views. In this article, I will analyze how GPTZero works and the accuracy of the tool. How does it work? GPTZero uses two measures to determine…

A surprisingly accurate tool to avoid ChatGPT plagiarism — The GPT-2 Output detector is an open-source plagiarism detection tool. The tool detects whether some text was generated by GPT-2. GPT-2 is an unsupervised OpenAI model released in 2019 and trained to predict the next words in a sentence. ChatGPT, also known as GPT-3.5, is a successor to GPT-2. In…

A social media using Django and React — I recently developed Restify, a social media app for restaurants. Restify is a full-stack application using Django and React. The purpose of this project was to practice full-stack development. In this post I will describe how the app works. Data Model Restify is a social media for restaurants. A user can create…

Doing well in Computer Science courses can be challenging. There is a heavy workload, requirements are ambiguous, and don’t get me started on trying to fix a bug at 2 AM. After taking and TAing the hardest University classes I discovered the strategies to ace any Computer Science course. You…

Lessons learned from 3 years as a teaching assistant — This is the fifth time you are TAing me. How? I heard this question a lot in the past semester. I have spent the past three years working as a teaching assistant. Every year I applied to the most advanced courses I could teach. …

A formal approach to analyzing programs — The big-O notation has become an essential part of coding interviews. Come up with a solution, code it, and then reason about the Big-O complexity. These interviews have led to the perception that Big-O is a measure of the exact runtime of a program, straying from the original definition. In…