Back to the Drawing Board 🧑🏼🏫
Everything we worked on this summer to make things better this year
Nothing is like the pure adrenaline rush from 0 to 1.
But from 1 to 2 comes darn close.
That’s what happened to GPTZero, in a blow-out moment end of August, the number of active GPTZero users doubled in a matter of days. The same core service, the same browser extension, the same Google Docs and Word integrations, but something had irrevocably changed as our team watched the number teeter from 99 to 100K — unique website visitors. Then, higher the next day, and higher again, with the newest number at 135K yesterday.
The writing is clearly on the blackboard.
As we return to school, people are turning to GPTZero more than ever.
I might sound overly enthusiastic, but I personally miss the fresh excitement of starting a new semester. Some of our team, including our fantastic summer interns1, are returning to school. The rest of us are returning to the core mission of improving GPTZero. This post will update you on everything we've done over the summer to make things better for the school year.
Agenda / Syllabus:
Interpretability and a completely revamped GPTZero Dashboard
[Launching this Week!]
Talking with Teacher Semester highlights
An integrated approach to teaching in 2023
Back to the model.
Dashboard 2.0
TBReleased this Friday, our revamped GPTZero Dashboard. It’s gorgeous 🤩
We went back to the drawing board to produce an awesome new user experience in analyzing writing with additional features including:
Interpretability Metrics: GPTZero users can now get additional explanations and interpretability metrics behind every scan, to better understand the results of an AI scan.
Writing Visualizations: GPTZero users can now generate a unique writing visualization for each scan, acting as a ‘stylistic-fingerprint’ offering insights into the lexical patterns of the writer. Over time these scans can be compared (ie. AI and human visuals differ significantly, as well as results between different human writers).
New Plagiarism Scans: With our additional plagiarism scan capabilities, users now can easily scan for both plagiarism and AI writing at the same time, with the simple click of a button.
Scan Histories: GPTZero users now have the ability to view the results of previous scans, save, and share with their communities!
Again, we are incredibly excited to be rolling out all of our new features end of week. As a celebratory note, for anyone that signs up before our new launch, we will be giving out 1 month free2 of GPTZero’s premium AI detection and all new GPTZero features! 🎉 🎉
Talking to Teachers
Over the summer we never stopped talking to teachers, with both our talking to teachers series, and working with teachers to build new tools. Highlights include.
Librarian and Instructional Designer, Henna Punjabi, on citing ChatGPT and the importance of educating students on the copy-right problems with AI [Read more]
Professor David Burghardt, on using GPTZero to identify two students who did use AI, talking with them, then moving on. [Read more]
Law Professor Christa Laser, on judging AI submissions differently, and whether ChatGPT could help or hurt students studying to pass the bar exam. [Read more]
With the feedback of teachers, GPTZero recently built the Writing Report a ground-truth analysis of writing during the generation process, which teachers are using in an integrated approach with AI detection.
Sean Morris, founder of the Digital Pedagogy Lab in Colorado, recently spent an ecstatic ten minutes, watching his writing replay on the Origin Writing Report.
“As a former writing instructor, I see that GPTZero gives students a new way to engage with their own writing, their own authorship. I can imagine using this tool to teach students what it means to write in an authentic voice, to understand what the writing process actually looks like," shares Morris.
Another professor, who teaches English at Salem Community College, recently added Origin to her syllabus, recommending all her students use it too.
Not only did using AI detection help her learn more about her classroom, an integrated approach with the Origin writing report helped her student gain insights into their writing.
Model Researchers
Two GPTZero researchers, Alex Cui (who dropped-out of his PHD in AI) and Alex Adam (who recently completed his thesis defense in AI) just couldn’t get enough of school.
Both went back to their alma mater this week. They were excited to share GPTZero’s research goals and model developments with the University of Toronto Vector AI Institute and research community, including some of our following updates.
The GPTZero Research team expanded our database of human and AI text by 5X in August, which is leading to far better results on diverse evaluation sets.
We started leveraging our new user-labeled and verified human datasets, which differentiates us from any other competitor, for ML research.
Recent model update surpasses competitors in AI detection on publicly released benchmark data
News and Media
Gizmodo Replaces Spanish News Section with AI Translations [The Verge]
The A.V. Club's AI-Generated Articles Are Copying Directly From IMDb [Futurism]
GPTZero Acquires Percent Human to Better Support Students [GPTZero News]
The AI Detection Arms Race is On, and College Students are Building the Weapons [Wired]
CEOs Tell Senators, Time to Regulate AI [Axios[
The NYT is Pumping Money into AI including New Newsroom Jobs [WorkDay Posting]
Prepare for a Flood of AI-Generated Emails as Bard Integrates into Gmail [TechCrunch]
Thanks for reading this update!
Shoutouts to our summer interns Maggie, Jin, Luke! they had hundreds of amazing conversations with teachers and students, and also started a GPTZero Tiktok.
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