OpenAI Has a Tool to Detect When Students Use ChatGPT to Cheat

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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OpenAI has developed a tool that can reliably tell when ChatGPT has been used to write an essay or research paper. The company hasn’t released it despite widespread concerns about students using artificial intelligence to cheat. WSJ reporter Deepa Seetharaman joins host Zoe Thomas to explain how the tool works and why OpenAI hasn’t released it. Plus, big tech companies have found a way to get talent and technology from AI startups without acquiring them. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.3	Ad Council.
0:15.1	Welcome to Tech News Briefing.
0:20.5	It's Thursday, August 8th.
0:22.2	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.0	At least three once hot artificial intelligence startups have been rescued via a type of deal
0:30.6	that many in the tech industry say are acquisitions in everything but name.
0:36.1	We'll tell you what's going on.
0:38.1	And then teachers want help detecting when students are using chat gee P.T to cheat.
0:43.8	Open AI has built a tool that can do just that,
0:47.0	with 99.9% certainty.
0:50.2	So why hasn't it released the tech yet?
0:52.6	Our reporter, Deepa Citha Raman, will join us with that exclusive reporting. But first AI startups raised billions of dollars last year
1:06.2	aiming to become winners in the latest tech-driven boom.
1:09.8	But as we've talked about before, the tech is expensive to build.
1:13.6	Many startups are discovering they don't have the resources and the runway to get there.
1:18.9	Now, some are asking Silicon Valley's biggest companies to bail them out.
1:24.0	Joining us now is our reporter, Burber Jin.
1:26.6	Burber, these so-called aqui hires when a large company buys a startup, mostly to hire
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