Ai Detection App Reading Comprehension - 147647

A college student created an app called GPTZero that can detect if an essay was written by an AI like ChatGPT or by a human. The app analyzes the complexity and variation of sentences to make its determination. It has been popular with teachers who want to identify AI-generated assignments being passed off as original student work.

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AN APP AGAINST AI PLAGIARISM

1. Read the following news story about a new app which has been
created to help teachers detect if an AI has written an essay. Then,
answer the questions below.

A college student created an app

that can tell whether AI wrote an
essay
Emma Bowman

January 9, 2023

Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial

intelligence chatbot now have a new tool of their own. Edward Tian, a 22-year-old senior
at Princeton University, has built an app to detect whether text is written by ChatGPT, the
viral chatbot that’s sparked fears over its potential for unethical uses in academia. Tian, a
computer science major who is minoring in journalism, spent part of his winter break
creating GPTZero, which he said can "quickly and efficiently" decipher whether a human
or ChatGPT authored an essay.

His motivation to create the bot was to

fight what he sees as an increase in AI
plagiarism. Since the release of ChatGPT in
late November, there have been reports of
students using the breakthrough language
model to pass off AI-written assignments as
their own. "There's so much ChatGPT hype
going around. Is this and that written by AI?
We as humans deserve to know!" Tian
wrote in a tweet introducing GPTZero.

Tian said many teachers have reached out to him after he released his bot online on Jan.
2, telling him about the positive results they've seen from testing it. More than 30,000
people had tried out GPTZero within a week of its launch. It was so popular that the app
crashed. Streamlit, the free platform that hosts GPTZero, has since stepped in to support
Tian with more memory and resources to handle the web traffic.

To determine whether an excerpt is written by a bot, GPTZero uses two indicators:

"perplexity" and "burstiness." Perplexity measures the complexity of text; if GPTZero is
perplexed by the text, then it has a high complexity and it's more likely to be human-
written. However, if the text is more familiar to the bot — because it's been trained on
such data — then it will have low complexity and therefore is more likely to be AI-
generated. Separately, burstiness compares the variations of sentences. Humans tend to

Adapted from Internet Television reading for deta…: English ESL worksheets pdf & doc
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write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or complex sentences
alongside shorter ones. AI sentences tend to be more uniform. In a demonstration video,
Tian compared the app's analysis of a story in The New Yorker and a LinkedIn post written
by ChatGPT. It successfully distinguished writing by a human versus AI.

Tian acknowledged that his bot isn't foolproof, as some users have reported when putting
it to the test. He said he's still working to improve the model's accuracy. But by designing
an app that sheds some light on what separates human from AI, the tool helps work
toward a core mission for Tian: bringing transparency to AI. "For so long, AI has been a
black box where we really don't know what's going on inside," he said. "And with
GPTZero, I wanted to start pushing back and fighting against that."

- What is ChatGPT? Why are teachers worried about it?

- What is GPTZero? Who created it and why?

- How has this new tool been received?

- How does GPTZero work?

- What further advantage does this invention have?

2. Try to write a definition for the expressions highlighted in the text, and then
check your answers with a dictionary:

breakthrough: ______________________________________________________

hype: ____________________________________________________________

to reach out: _______________________________________________________

foolproof: _________________________________________________________

black box: _________________________________________________________

The text of the article (in shortened form) was taken from:

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/09/1147549845/gptzero-ai-chatgpt-edward-tian-plagiarism

and its author is Emma Bowman.

Adapted from Internet Television reading for deta…: English ESL worksheets pdf & doc
(islcollective.com)
ANSWER KEY

- It is a viral chatbot which can be used to write texts. It worries teachers

because students can used it to write their essays.
- It is an app that can decipher if a text is written by a human or a bot. It’s
been developed by Edward Tian, a 22-year-old Princeton student who was
worried about increasing AI plagiarism at university.
- Many teachers got in touch with Tian to tell him about the positive results
they got. The app was so popular that it crashed, and the platform hosting it
provided more memory and resources to keep it working.
- It takes into account two indicators: perplexity measures the complexity of
the text, and burstiness measures the level of variation or uniformity in the
text.
- It sheds light on the differences between human intelligence and AI, and it
also works towards AI transparency (it helps us know more about how AI
works).