In a blog post published by OpenAI on Wednesday, the company
introduced ChatGPT Plus, which will be initially rolling out only for the
customers in the United States. The company will soon extend the access
availability through inviting people from its waitlist, probably over the
coming weeks. OpenAI will also be rolling out ChatGPT to more regions in the
near future.
ChatGPT Plus comes will certain benefits for the users,
including normal access to the platform during peak usage, a quicker response
time and priority access to upcoming features and improvements. Until the roll
out of the subscription plan to other regions, the company will continue to
provide free access to its users.
On Wednesday, OpenAI also has released a software tool to
identify text generated by artificial intelligence. ChatGPT is a free program
that generates textin response to a prompt, including articles, essays, jokes
and even poetry, which has gained wide popularity since its debut in November,
while raising concerns about copyright and plagiarism.
The AI classifier, a language model trained on the dataset
of pairs of human-written and AI-written text on the same topic, aims to
distinguish text that is written by AI. It uses a variety of providers to
address issues such as automated misinformation campaigns and academic
dishonesty, the company said.
In its public beta mode, OpenAI acknowledges the detection
tool is very unreliable on texts under 1,000 characters, and AI-written text
can be edited to trick the classifier.
Since ChatGPT debuted in November and gained wide popularity
among millions of users, some of the largest US school districts, including New
York City, have banned the AI chatbot over concerns that students will use the
text generator to cheat or plagiarise.
Others have created third-party detection tools including
GPTZeroX to help educators detect AI-generated text.
OpenAI said it is engaging with educators to discuss
ChatGPT's capabilities and limitations, and will continue to work on the
detection of AI-generated text.