ChatGPT maker OpenAI pulled AI-detection tool due to inaccuracy

The creator of the ChatGPT large language model (LLM) has quietly taken down the tool that it has been using to identify texts generated by AI because its accuracy level was too low.

OpenAI’s AI classifier tool, which was released in January, was touted to be able to tell whether text has been generated by ChatGPT or not. At launch, OpenAI hyped the tool as “significantly more reliable on text” compared to its previous attempts at building similar detection systems, but it admitted it would not be perfect.

“Our…