'These technologies are brilliant, but we need safeguards against them': Meet the Etobicoke-born inventor of the ChatGPT detector

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Edward Tian, a Princeton student from Etobicoke, built the chatbot detector GPTZero in three days. Now, he’s using the tool to fight misinformation, help teachers and protect the humanity of writing

, a tool that detects AI-generated text. “I was expecting, at best, a few dozen people to try it out,” says the fourth-year computer science major. Instead, it crashed the day after it went online, in early January, due to overwhelming traffic. Since then, Tian has been fielding calls from venture capitalists, media outlets and educators—all while juggling his classes, working to improve GPTZero and, you know, trying to graduate this spring.

I’m really interested in misinformation and bot detection. I actually took a year off from school to work on that, looking at Facebook bots that already had AI-generated faces. ChatGPT made me think,That’s kind of scary. These technologies are brilliant, but we also need to build safeguards so that they’re adopted responsibly. And that’s not something we can do months or years after they’re released.

It can’t fact-check. It’s never going to be able to interview people or gather new information or turn the facts into a compelling story. But it’s great for getting started and generating ideas, and that’s what I use it for. It’s also great at writing fake news articles that look like real news, so that’s a cause for concern.

 

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thanks a lot rachel

Knives are sharp and cut and kill people every day. Still no safeguards on them. Get over it. The real issue is the companies trying to give AI feelings. Those are the people who need safeguards from themselves.

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I don't understand anything it looks the writer wrote for his own interest

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