ChatGPT and 2 Free Tools that Identify AI Written Text

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Episode #129: ChatGPT and 2 Free Tools that Identify AI Written Text

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 129 called “ChatGPT and 2 Free Tools that Identify AI Written Text”   In this episode, we’ll share our take on ChatGPT and other AI apps that can write and think for you.  We’ll also share 2 edtech tools that help teachers identify when text has been AI generated.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Segment 1: Updates

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Segment 2: ChatGPT vs GPTZero

  1. General intro to chatgpt and other ai that inspired this episode
  2. New Tech Rant: Use technology to enhance the way we learn… remember the same hesitancies when 
  1. Computers
  2. the internet came out
  3. Calculators
  4. Works Cited Generators
  5. Photo Math 
  6. Wikipedia
  7. Google Translate
  1. ChatGPT
    1. Negative Uses in Education
      1. Essays being written for students
      2. Disrupts the creative process
      3. Can be out of date (Runs off of a scan from 2021)
      4. Incorrect information
      5. Bias
    2. Positive Uses in Education
      1. Pen and paper back in session?
      2. Brainstorming ideas
      3. Ask GPT to come up with lists or introductions to topics where students can research beyond the AI
      4. Gamify your classroom… 2 Truths and a Lie becomes 2 of my and 1 of AI or Human vs AI
      5. Have AI help with summarizing/Note-taking
      6. Generation of prompts or tasks
  2. Other AI Writing Apps
    1. Wordtune
    2. Grammarly
  3. Forbes Article Link
  4. Tim Cavey’s
  5. GPTZero
    1. I ran through two samples. One that was written by a student and one by ChatGPT. I copy and pasted the results into these two documents:
      1. Text Report 1
        1. Get GPTZero Result
        2. Your GPTZero score corresponds to the likelihood of the text being AI generated:118.7305572913241
        3. Your text is likely human generated!
      2. Text Report 2
        1. GPTZero has finished analyzing your text!
        2. Your GPTZero score corresponds to the likelihood of the text being AI generated:24.142793104246635
        3. Your text is most likely to be AI generated!
      3. GotTechED’s YouTube Video on GPTZero
  6. Checkforai.com
    1. Feedback
      1. Thank you for the feedback! Glad to hear it is simple to use- that was one of my main goals when designing the platform. Excited to see it used on the show!
      2. To give you some additional background:
        1. The risk score is based upon the word frequencies, as AI produces more standardized output, meaning the text has statistical markers in word patterns that are different from human written text. I used neural networks to identify these patterns. 
        2. Generally, low risk means there is a low chance of the text being ai generated. Medium risk means the AI is unsure, or, the text may have been written by a human, but edited by AI. High risk means there is a high risk of the text being written by an AI, and very high risk usually means the text was copy pasted directly from chatgpt. It is always good to remember that, like all ai detection tools, it is not perfect, so it should be used in combination with manual inspection of the content and conversation with students! 
      3. Thanks again for trying it out, and the positive feedback. I will look into adding these explanations and more data on the results in the next feature update. Looking forward to seeing it used on the show.

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