ChatGPT makers launch tool to spot AI texts – but it's not very good

Despite all the enthusiasm surrounding ChatGPT, many experts have been ringing the alarm bells about the risks of such AI-generated texts. The makers now want to help us tell which texts are from humans and which aren't. — Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa

NEW YORK: Despite all the enthusiasm surrounding ChatGPT, experts have been ringing the alarm bells about the risks of such AI-generated texts. The makers of this potentially revolutionary piece of software now want to help us tell which texts are from humans and which aren't.

Faced with widespread concerns that potentially inaccurate AI-written texts are about to flood the internet and be indistinguishable from human-written texts, the makers of the text-writing software ChatGPT say they have a solution.