Plagiarism catcher Turnitin announces ‘state-of-the-art’ AI writing detector

https://universitybusiness.com/plagiarism-catcher-turnitin-announces-state-of-the-art-ai-writing-detector/?oly_enc_id=2571J0187145E3G

The tool, expected to launch in April, is capable of detecting 97% of ChatGPT writing with a less than 1% false positive rate, according to the company.

AI Text Classifier

The AI Text Classifier is a fine-tuned GPT model that predicts how likely it is that a piece of text was generated by AI from a variety of sources, such as ChatGPT. This classifier is available as a free tool to check for AI- generated text and to spark discussions on AI literacy. 

Before trying the Classifier, keep these limitations in mind:

Current limitations:

• Requires a minimum of 1,000 characters, which is approximately 150 - 250 words.
• The classifier isn't always accurate; it can mislabel both AI-generated and human-written text.
• AI-generated text can be edited easily to evade the classifier.
• The classifier is likely to get things wrong on text written by children and on text not in English, because it was primarily trained on English content written by adults.

Here is some guidance, albeit early in the ChatGPT lifecycle and thus subject to change, on how to cite when ChatGPT has been used. Just remember it is important to include the date of access in a citation.

https://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2023/01/how-to-cite-chatgpt.html

Ready or not, chatGPT (the newest version of OpenAI’s impressive AI technologies) is now in your classroom. It can write papers, essays, and poems. It can create art and write computer code in many languages. This is not however the time to panic; it is the time to focus on the value you offer students as their instructor.

Click this link to learn more by Ryan Walker, Professor of Education Technology Leadership at George Washington University:     https://medium.com/@rwatkins_7167/updating-your-course-syllabus-for-chatgpt-965f4b57b003

Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools

This resource is created by Lance Eaton for the purposes of sharing and helping other instructors see the range of policies available by other educators to help in the development of their own for navigating AI-Generative Tools (such as ChatGPT, MidJourney, Dall-E, etc).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V1drRG1XlWTBrEwgGqd-cCySUB12JrcoamB5i16-Ezw/edit#heading=h.y7vlxxluoxbv

Compiled by Anna Mills for the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse as part of a larger resource collection: AI and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry. Licensed CC BY NC 4.0. 

The Table of Contents as March 1, 2023

Cautions and Disclaimers

About AI Text Generators/Large Language Models

Implications for Higher Ed Writing Assignments

Audio and Video 

Sample Policy Statements about Text Generators

Student Perspectives and Marketing to Students

Assignments That Incorporate Text Generators

Peer-Reviewed Papers

Slides and Handouts That Can Be Adapted with Attribution

Short Pieces on the General Topic of AI

Books on AI in General

Publicly Available Language Models

​​How to Prompt Language Models

Detecting AI-Generated Text

Using Text Generators for Help Preparing Courses and Assessing Students

AI and Creative Writing

Organizations

Calls for Papers and Proposals

Materials in Spanish

MathGPT Platform Can Now Be Custom-Configured for Publishers, Math Instruction Providers, Even Institutions

• By Kristal Kuykendall
• 03/15/23

GotIt, the company behind micro-tutoring platform PhotoStudy and the MathGPT project first unveiled in January, said today that the expanded MathGPT Platform will be multi-modal and can be configured by a publisher or institution to work with almost any kind of math instruction technology or content, including “next-generation textbook publishing, video content publishing, personalized tutoring, teacher assignments and assessments, and even classroom teaching.” Click here to read the article in full: https://campustechnology.com/articles/2023/03/15/mathgpt-platform-can-now-be-custom-configured-for-publishers-ed-tech-providers-institutions.aspx?s=ct_nu_160323&oly_enc_id=4214A8673090F9Y

One Useful Thing: A Newsletter With AI Content and More

A place to translate research into advice, or commentary, in a way that is short and useful. Compiled by Ethan Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His disciplines are entrepreneurship & innovation, as well as how we can better learn and teach. You will be prompted to enter your email to subscribe to the newsletter.

Educator Considerations for ChatGPT

This page provides a brief overview for educators seeking to learn more about the capabilities, limitations, and considerations for using ChatGPT for teaching and learning. While this page focuses on ChatGPT and the OpenAI AI text classifier, many of these considerations are also relevant to the use of language models for teaching and learning more broadly.

This page is not intended to be a comprehensive set of best practices, but rather a starting point for discussion among education professionals and language model providers for the use and impact of AI on education.

AI copywriting tools to check out; NOTE they all end with .com

1. Chat GPT - Research

2. QuillBot - Paraphrasing

3. StoryLab - Hooks and outlines

4. Grammarly - Grammar/spelling

5. Hemingway - Conciseness/clarity

6. Power Thesaurus - Thesaurus

7. Tweet Hunter - Content creation