A Review of OpenAI’s AI Detector

It’s designed for the competition, not for ChatGPT

Michael
6 min readFeb 1, 2023

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 of many AI detectors. The tool extends on OpenAI’s previous GPT2 Output Detector with data from many language models.

In this post I will give an honest, full review of the new detector. I will show how you can use, how it works, what is the accuracy, and why you shouldn’t trust this tool.

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Sample Usage

The detector is available at OpenAI’s website, at: https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier.

You will need to authenticate to your OpenAI account to use the tool.

Once you have accessed the site, you can copy some text and click the Submit button to get a prediction.

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Michael

I am currently a backend engineer. I like to research new topics and blog about them.