Anti-AIgiarism in the Times of ChatGPT

On January 9, Analytics India Magazine published a story, ‘Will AI Plagiarism Tools Burst the ChatGPT Bubble’. Here, we discussed how anti-plagiarism softwares, particularly the likes of Turnitin and others, will have a bigger role in identifying text generated from AI tools such as ChatGPT and other GPT-3-based applications in order to check AI-giarism (derived from plagiarism). 

Turnitin, largely used by thousands of schools and universities across the globe, recently announced a tool to detect text generated by AI. The company plans to launch it in the first half of 2023.

This is a relief for schools and colleges as there have been multiple instances of students using ChatGPT for assignments, and clearing exams, etc. “Speed matters. We're hearing from teachers, just give us something,” said Annie Chechitelli, the chief product officer at Turnitin, depicting the urgency, adding that they have been building the software since the release of GPT-3.

She confirmed that it would be basic detection at first, followed by subsequent releases that would create a more actionable workflow for teachers. Turnitin looks to making this tool free for existing customers, collecting data and user feedback before getting into production. 

Fighting fire with fire 

Interestingly, the Turnitin detector is said to be built on the same architecture as GPT-3 and is described as a miniature version of the model. Simply put, there is a detector component attached to it instead of a generative component, explained Eric Wang, the VP of AI at Turnitin, saying they are fighting fire with fire. 

Further explaining, he said that their tool reads language the same way as GPT-3 reads language, but instead of spitting out more language, it prompts users if the passage appears to be GPT-3 generated. Currently, the team is working on perfecting the explainability and UI/UX aspects so that teachers are comfortable using the platform. 

Besides Turnitin, Princeton students Edward Tian and Sreejan Kumar have developed something similar called the GPTZero to identify text generated by ChatGPT and other AI generative tools. The team was supposed to launch GPTZeroX last week, but there has been no update so far.

Another tool, Originality.AI, a plagiarism checker and AI detector, has been built mainly for content publishers, not academia. It was recently used for checking one of CNET Money's content, where they found AI being used to generate content. 

Interestingly, OpenAI’s ChatGPT too suggests if AI has generated the text. However, there is a small hiccup. For example, if you post a text from the pre-ChatGPT era, it says that the text has been generated by it or cites relevant sources on a few occasions – as it has been trained on data from the internet till 2021. 

However, if OpenAI solves this, anti-ChatGPT tools would be rendered irrelevant. 

Read more here.

Why are Cloud Service Providers Pushy? 

Against the backdrop of rapid digitisation and AI adoption, the likes of AWS, Azure, and GCP have been extremely pushy with enterprise customers in selling their cloud services and offerings in the form of cloud certifications, free credits, partnership programmes, etc. At the onset, these may look beneficial for enterprises in terms of ease of use and scale. But, many believe that it also leads to innovation taking a backseat. 

As per last year’s survey by MongoDB, 57 percent of people said that the cloud has helped them innovate, but 26 percent said it made innovation harder. The reason being that clouds add cognitive overhead. Also, the developers work with multiple APIs, query languages, and data models, building applications on many pieces of fragmented infrastructure. 

Read more here.

Inside Intuit India 

Intuit’s AI and analytics team have been instrumental in bringing out some of the best products in the market, including TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, MailChimp, etc. 

Here’s a sneak peek into Intuit India: 

40 Under 40 Data Scientists 2023

At MLDS 2023, AIM celebrated some of the milestones of data scientists in the country with the 40 Under 40 Data Scientists award for their exemplary work in AI and analytics.

Here’s a list of all the winners.