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Academic Honesty & ChatGPT : Dectecting ChatGPT Material

Ways to detect ChatGPT

David Gewirtz from Zdnet.com reviewed 3 ChatGPT detectors and reached the following conclusion:

  • Even the specialty tools I found were woefully unsuited to the task. The best case was the GPT-2 Output Detector, but it only got two thirds of the text submitted correct.  At this point, I don't think we're ready to let AI fight AI. Instead, we're going to have to rely on human perception (which means folks have today attention) in order to identify works that were generated by an AI. Don't immediately assume that something is machine-generated. Just because something is stupid or terribly inaccurate, don't immediately assume it was not written by a human. As we've all come to know, humans are quite capable of writing some incredibly bad stuff all on their own.  (Gewirtz, 2023).

How Instructors can Detect ChatGPT work

Here are some editor secrets on how to recognise generated text:

One way to spot fake AI-generated stories is to look for telltale signs of machine-generated text, such as:

  1. lack of detail,
  2. absence of realistic human emotion

Another option is to read the story carefully and compare it to other stories on the same topic to see if there are inconsistencies or factual errors. You can also run the story through a plagiarism checker to see if it matches existing content. In addition, check the information in the story against other sources.  (Rtology, 2023)

What is the reliability of the current ChatGPT detectors?  (University of Pittsburgh Center for Teaching and Learning, n.d.)

What other ChatGPT alternatives are out there?

Bloom

Bloom is an open-source multi-language model. This Chat GPT alternative added 384 graphic cards with a total of 80 GB of memory to 176 billion parameters to train – 1 billion more than the GPT 3 model.

Chinchilla

DeepMind researchers developed a project named Chinchilla, which is more intimately known as the GPT3 killer.

It’s an optimal computing model that has 70 billion protocols. It has four times more data than Gopher, also developed by DeepMind. Chinchilla is reportedly one of the best options for downstream evaluation tasks (also known as the task a user wants to solve).

It’s a top-notch AI-based writing tool and has educational data on history. Therefore, it can create articles with proper style and structure minus grammatical errors. Without human help, it can produce a useful and readable article in less than an hour.

Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation

Microsoft and Nvidia made a language model with 530 billion parameters, making it bigger and better than others available. Called Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation, it is one of the best English language models – trained on SuperPOD by the Selene supercomputer.

Jasper

Jasper AI is a writing model previously known as Jarvis. Jasper has bought other writing tools, such as Shortly AI and Headline, and these will be integrated into Jasper in the coming years.

You can select a topic and fill out the relevant form, and Jasper will create the article for you according to the instructions you have entered. Jasper has a 5-day free trial, with its ‘starter’ plan starting at $24 per month.

Replika

Replika is pretty close to Chat GPT in conversational uses, and you can have similar conversations here, too. It can talk and give text replies at any time without delay. It is primarily an AI chatbot you can use to discuss general topics like love and life, just like you do with friends.

ELSA

ELSA stands for English Language Speech Assistant, a language learning app. It is available on Android and iOS platforms to download. The app analyzes users’ speech and helps them learn and understand the language.

There are more Chat GPT alternatives too, some with more specific applications than others. Here’s a list of a few, including those mentioned above.

ELSA has free and Pro options and Pro costs $11.99 for one month, $8.66p/m for three months, and $6.25p/m for one-year access.

Chat GPT alternatives – final thoughts

We have discussed some of the top alternatives of Chat GPT above. You can perform a wide range of functions using these alternatives, and there are others too – including Rytr, Socratic and Faceapp – which uses AI modeling on imagery.

So, when Chat GPT is not working, you’re not sure about the price or if you require another specific application that is more easily served by an alternative, you can use one of these instead.  (Abdullah, 2023)