I work in the detection tools industry.
My company invents, designs, and builds biometrics identification sensors. Specifically, we make fingerprint sensors for low-to-no-power applications such as credit cards, crypto wallets, and access cards. In theory, if you’re not you, you can’t gain access. And we spend an awful lot of time, resources, physics, and brain power making sure you’re you.
We only exist, as does the entire industry of detection tools, because somebody somewhere cheats the system. If nobody cheats, we don’t need to detect it.
Bank vaults, door locks, passwords, the blockchain, militaries, police, jails, and defense lawyers. All part of the detection tools industries. All exist only because somebody somewhere cheats the system.
Along comes ChatGPT, and with it, a whole new avenue to cheat the system. The education industry is up in arms. So we create detection tools like GPTZero and AI Text Classifier.
It’s a weird zero-sum game. First, create the method for cheating, then create the method for detecting the cheating.
Or maybe it’s not zero-sum. Just like the fingerprint sensors that my company makes don’t always detect the cheater. Sometimes somebody gets away with it.
As humans, we, unfortunately, cheat each other all the time. Sometimes unintentionally, but not always. How do we detect it? What tools do we use?
We use our feelings. We feel cheated. Our detector is rock solid.
Remember, the next time you intentionally cheat someone else, they’re gonna feel it.
* Results of feeding this text into GPTZero: “Your text is likely to be written entirely by a human”
** Results of feeding this text into AI Text Classifier: “The classifier considers the text to be very unlikely AI-generated.”
