What’s the Best Tool for Detecting AI Generated Content?

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) based chatbots like ChatGPT have made it way easier to generate content than might have been the case otherwise. In spite of the fact that this is the case, much of this content might not be all that high in quality, and most users are looking for ways to detect whether or not content was written by a human being or simply generated through the use of an AI chatbot with all things having been considered and taken into account.

Not only can the content output of AI be of a low quality, it can also contain harmful misinformation. Also, if you are paying someone to write content for you, it helps to know if they actually put the work in or if they just tried to use a shortcut to cut corners and get the job done without putting any effort into it. Another disadvantage of AI generated content is that it can result in a penalty from Google.

With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that there are several tools that can be used to detect whether or not content was written by an AI or a human being. Here’s a list of some of the best ones:

1. AI Text Classifier by OpenAI

Created by the same company that’s behind ChatGPT, this is a relatively accurate tool. One might think that a detector from the creator of ChatGPT would be the most accurate tool of all, but it failed to measure up to the quality and effectiveness of some of the tools we have described below. That said, all you need to access it is an OpenAI account, and there are no charges that need to be paid either.

2. Copyleaks AI Content Detector

Firstly, this tool offers a Chrome extension because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up expanding its usability by a large margin. You can simply hover your cursor over a specific block of text and it will give you a percentage that will determine the likelihood that an AI was used to generate it. Or simply you can visit copyleaks.com/ai-content-detector and paste your content to see its originality. 

3. Writer

If you want to be able to detect AI generated content but don’t want to have to pay for the privilege, Writer might be your best bet. You can gauge the legitimacy of up to one thousand and five hundred words of content with this tool, although you would need to purchase access to the API in order to scan more words, currently it can detect content written by GPT-3 and GPT-4 models.

4. ZeroGPT

Here we have yet another AI content detector that is freely available for consumers. Not only will this tool allow you to detect content which was drafted by AI, but it will also serve as a tool that highlights the part of the content which is likely written by ChatGPT or GPT-4. So ZeroGPT can be a good choice for digital marketers who want to separate the original content from machine generated.

5. AI Content Detector by CrossPlag

If you’re looking for an AI content detector that can also provide some insight into plagiarism, this tool will be an essential choice. One thing to note about this tool is that it tends to perform better if it is provided a longer block of text to analyze. Overall, it is a handy tool, even though it falls short of the performance of AI generated content detectors that are higher up on this list, which makes it a decent second choice.

Other bonus tools you can try, GPTzero, Sapling AI Content-detector, Content at Scale AI.

One important note for those who use these AI detectors is that, these tools can sometimes label carefully human-crafted content as AI-generated text, so be sure to not fire your content writer just based on the tools finding, instead, manually fact-checking your content by a human editor is always recommended. 

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by Zia Muhammad via Digital Information World