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Rizda. Welcome back to make me smart. Where we make today make sense. And I'm Kimberly Adams. This is what do you want to know?

Wednesday you bring the questions and will provide the answers. You can get your question on the podcast by leaving us a

voice mail at 508 UB smart or you can email us at make me smart at marketplace dot org question number one go. Hi, Kai and Kimberly.

This is Kathy from Virginia Beach and I am calling about chat G. P. T. Is there any knowledge of thoughts where that it will come along to counter act and identify plagiarism

from the AI bot. Thanks for making me smart. You doing this one care to you. Yeah, I mean this was one of the first questions that a lot of people started asking when this really broke into the mainstream and I'll point out that this tech has been around in iterations for a couple of years, but mainly just very techie people were playing around with it.

But this question about plagiarism and whether or not chat G. P. T. was going to be used to basically write every high school and potentially college essay ever is definitely a big concern so much so that marketplace is Stephanie Hughes actually did a story on this and the growing demand for software that attempts to detect whether or not chat G. P. T. or these other generative AI programs have been used in written work.

And sure enough students are already trying to use it teachers have been able to spot it so far apparently you know it's relatively easy to tell the difference between a smooth AI answer and a 17 year old.

And so it's a phoning it in answer. But you know the tech is going to get better and teachers want tools to catch it so companies like turn it in that sell plagiarism detection software are really rushing to release a chat bot detection products that they can sell to schools.

And it's hoping it open AI which created chat G. P. T. has already released an online tool that rates how likely it is that a piece of text was written by a chat bot but it doesn't work all that well yet.

And it depends on how closely that text matches the writing that the chat bot was trained on there are also some other tools in the works of Princeton engineering student who was in Stephanie story built a free app called G. P. T. zero works in a similar way.

And so our wonderful producers here at Make Me Smart did an experiment testing out both of these tools asking chat G. P. T. to write the answer to Kathy's question and plugged and then we got the answer and then plugged the that answer into both of these apps that are supposed to detect whether or not AI wrote it.

And you know good news is both of them seem to think so G. P. T. zero said your text is likely to be written entirely by AI and then open AI's tool said the text was likely to be AI generated.

However, after a little human editing which you can imagine somebody might do if they're using this chat G. P. T. zero said some parts may be written by AI and open AI's tool still said likely to be AI generated not so bad but not completely accurate yet although there's a lot of money to be had in this and so a ton of other startups are working on it too.

Oh yeah, it is a business opportunity but I do have to say and look I was a goody two shoes when I was in high school but the temptation has to be overwhelming to use this.

Yeah, especially when you're staring at the blank page or something to get you started and I can imagine that's how it's going to start you know it's like well let me just get some ideas and then I'll go back and write it in my own voice and like yeah.

Yeah, yeah, all right next up we have an email from an anonymous fan which is fine although we'd love to hear your voice you can be open and honest with us we're nice but they wrote how will the recent storms in California impact produce prices Mr. California.

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