The frequent use of more AI-generated content, mainly in the field of education, demands the advent of new AI tools that can detect and differentiate AI-generated content from the ones produced by humans. When it became one of the biggest concerns of educators around the world, it drew many criticisms. In January, OpenAI rolled out a tool that helps us detect content created by Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT.

However, it has been reported that the San Fransisco-based AI startup OpenAI has quietly shut down its AI detection app called AI Classifier. The reason is said to be its low rate of accuracy. The company claimed that it is working towards including feedback and is researching to offer efficient solutions.

OpenAI said in a blog post, “As of July 20, 2023, the AI classifier is no longer available due to its low accuracy rate. We are working to incorporate feedback and researching more effective provenance techniques for text. We have committed to developing and deploying mechanisms enabling users to understand whether audio or visual content is AI-generated.”

The tool AI Classifier was trained to classify text written by humans and AI from various given providers. While launching the app, the company proclaimed that it would be available to the public in order to get feedback on which the imperfect tools like this one could be useful. They also revealed the app’s limitations saying that, users should not solely rely on the app for making decisions.

Furthermore, they mentioned, that the Classifier was unreliable in short texts and tended to mislabel longer ones. At times, the Classifier tended to count human-written text as AI-generated. Moreover, the tool was only recommended for English and failed to perform well with coding and other languages.

OpenAI brought up the tool as a resource to assist educators, journalists and researchers, after acknowledging the challenges involved for educators in detecting AI-generated contents. Launching tools like ChatGPT has made many professionals use AI to develop contents. Hence, shutting down tools like AI Classifier has turned out to be a disappointment for educators worldwide who have been trying hard to recognize AI-generated content.