🪦 Dead
OpenAI AI Text Classifier
Feature removed · Technical Failure · shut down July 20, 2023
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 5m 20d
- Cause of death
- Technical Failure
- Killed by
- OpenAI
- Type
- Service
OpenAI's tool to detect AI-generated text, launched to address concerns about ChatGPT being used for cheating and misinformation. Quietly pulled after just 6 months because its accuracy was abysmal — correctly identifying only 26% of AI-written text while falsely flagging 9% of human-written text as AI.
Collateral damage: Educators who relied on it to detect AI-written assignments lost their only free detection tool from a major AI lab.