I had 1 hour to beat the best AI plagiarism checker

In an experiment to outsmart AI plagiarism detectors, the host challenges themselves to write a 500-word essay within an hour that evades the detection of GPT Zero, a cutting-edge plagiarism checker. Despite several attempts to add personality and originality, the essay repeatedly flags as plagiarized. The host expresses concerns about the potential misuse of these tools and their effectiveness in distinguishing between AI-generated and human-written content. Ultimately, the experiment reveals the limitations of current AI detection methods and the necessity for human input in creating authentic writing.

Takeaways

• 🕒 The challenge was to write a 500-word essay within an hour that could bypass the latest plagiarism checker, GPT Zero.
• 🎓 Students have been known to use AI like ChatGPT for writing papers, leading to the development of sophisticated detection tools.
• 📈 GPT Zero is highly regarded by educators and has been endorsed by numerous publications, claiming high accuracy in detecting AI plagiarism.
• 🤖 Initial attempts at writing an essay using ChatGPT resulted in a text flagged as plagiarized due to repetitive phrases and dry, robotic facts.
• 📝 To improve the essay, the writer focused on adding human-like elements such as weird metaphors, personality, and reducing repetition.
• 🚀 After multiple revisions, the essay managed to pass GPT Zero and other AI detectors, indicating the possibility to bypass plagiarism checks.
• 🤔 The essay's creator expressed concerns about the potential for false accusations and the reliance on AI detectors in educational settings.
• 📚 The perplexity and burstiness metrics of real writing exceeded those of the AI-generated essay, suggesting different thresholds for detection.
• 🔄 The infinite prompt generator was used to create an essay, but the results were unsatisfactory and required further refinement.
• 🌟 Metaphors improved the essay's burstiness and perplexity scores, yet some sentences still flagged as plagiarized, showing the limitations of current AI writing.
• 📖 The writer concluded that while AI can assist in writing, significant human input is still required for quality and original content.

Q & A

What was the main challenge the speaker set for themselves?

The main challenge was to generate a 500-word essay within one hour that could bypass the latest AI plagiarism checker, GPT Zero.

How does the speaker initially select the topic for the essay?

The speaker randomly selects the topic for the essay, which turns out to be 'kangaroos'.

What are the three human-like qualities the speaker instructs Chat GPT to incorporate into the essay?

The three qualities are weird metaphors, bright sun tone, and personability.

What issue did the speaker notice with the initial essay generated by Chat GPT?

The initial essay was plagiarized, and Chat GPT tended to repeat the same words and phrases, making the facts sound dry and robotic.

How did the speaker attempt to bypass the AI plagiarism detector?

The speaker made the essay more personable, less repetitive, and tackled individual offending sentences with more testing.

What was the speaker's concern about the feedback from AI detectors?

The speaker was concerned that having feedback on exact plagiarized sentences beforehand might be a cheat and may not always be available.

What did the speaker find problematic about the perplexity and burstiness scores?

The speaker found it problematic that the scores of real writing far exceeded the AI-generated paper, suggesting that universities might have a different detection threshold.

What was the result of the speaker's experiment with the infinite prompt generator?

The result was unsatisfactory; the essay generated by the infinite prompt generator was horrible and only half an hour was left to improve it.

How did the speaker use metaphors to improve the essay's scores?

By focusing more on metaphors and giving examples for the AI to follow, the burstiness and perplexity scores increased where the metaphors were used.

What was the speaker's final verdict on their challenge?

The speaker failed the challenge as they could not generate an essay that passed the AI detectors completely.

How does the speaker use Chat GPT for their novel writing?

The speaker uses Chat GPT by feeding it a specific plot, characters, and scene summaries paragraph by paragraph, which then outputs vivid, descriptive story-like paragraphs.

What is the speaker's hope regarding AI writing tools in universities?

The speaker hopes that these tools won't turn into the polygraph test of the century, implying they don't want them to be misused or become unreliable.

Outlines

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📝 The Challenge of Bypassing AI Plagiarism Detectors

The paragraph discusses the ongoing challenge of students attempting to use AI like Chat GPT to write essays and the development of detection tools such as GPT Zero. The author takes on the challenge of writing a 500-word essay on kangaroos that can bypass this advanced plagiarism checker. The essay initially gets flagged as plagiarized, but after adding human-like elements such as weird metaphors, bright sun tone, and personality, the essay manages to pass as human-written. However, the author expresses concerns about the limitations of such detectors, including the potential for false positives and the need for universities to establish clear thresholds for detection.

Keywords

Plagiarism Checker

A plagiarism checker is a tool or service used to identify and prevent plagiarism, which is the act of using someone else's work or ideas without proper attribution. In the context of the video, the protagonist is trying to outsmart a specific plagiarism checker, GPT Zero, by creating an essay that does not get flagged as copied or AI-generated. The challenge lies in the sophistication of the checker, which uses metrics like perplexity and burstiness to determine the authenticity of the text.

Chat GPT

Chat GPT is an AI language model known for its ability to generate human-like text based on given prompts. In the video, the protagonist uses Chat GPT to initially draft an essay, but it is flagged as plagiarized by the plagiarism checker. The protagonist then tries various methods to make the text sound more human and less repetitive to evade detection.

Perplexity

In the context of the video, perplexity is a metric used by the plagiarism checker to evaluate the complexity and unpredictability of the text. A lower perplexity score suggests that the text is more formulaic and potentially AI-generated, while a higher score indicates a more human-like, varied, and complex text.

Burstiness

Burstiness, as used in the video, refers to the sudden occurrence of a high volume of specific words or phrases, which might indicate AI-generated content. The protagonist attempts to manipulate this metric by varying the language and avoiding repetitive phrases to make the essay appear more naturally written by a human.

Personability

Personability in the context of the video refers to the quality of the text that makes it sound more like it was written by a person, with emotions, personal experiences, and unique perspectives. The protagonist aims to enhance the personability of the AI-generated essay to trick the plagiarism checker into thinking it is human-written.

Time Travelers

In a humorous and hypothetical context within the video, the protagonist jokes about essays from years ago being flagged as plagiarized by the AI checker, suggesting that the only explanation could be that the authors are time travelers. This highlights the potential flaws and over-sensitivity of AI detection tools.

Adderall

Adderall is a medication that can affect concentration and focus. In the video, the protagonist humorously suggests that the plagiarism checker might also detect the use of Adderall, indicating the absurdity of the idea that the tool could identify more than just plagiarism.

Infinite Prompt Generator

The Infinite Prompt Generator is a tool or method used by the protagonist to create a new version of the essay, aiming to bypass the plagiarism checker. It symbolizes the protagonist's relentless pursuit to find a solution by generating an endless variety of text variations.

Metaphors

Metaphors are figures of speech that describe an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. In the video, the protagonist focuses on incorporating more metaphors into the essay to increase its human-like qualities and to improve the perplexity and burstiness scores.

Open AI Detector

The Open AI Detector is a system mentioned in the video that evaluates whether the writing is likely to have been produced by an AI, based on its analysis of the text. Unlike the previous metrics of perplexity and burstiness, this detector makes a more direct assessment of the likelihood of AI authorship.

Polygraph Test

A polygraph test, or lie detector test, is a procedure used to determine whether a person is telling the truth. In the video, the protagonist compares the potential misuse of AI plagiarism detectors to the polygraph test, expressing concern that these tools might be used excessively or inaccurately, leading to false accusations.

Highlights

The challenge is to generate a 500-word essay that can bypass the latest plagiarism checker, GPT Zero, within one hour.

GPT Zero is endorsed by numerous publications and educators, claiming to detect AI plagiarism accurately.

The metrics of perplexity and burstiness are used by GPT Zero to evaluate the likelihood of plagiarism.

The initial attempt using chat GPT to write an essay on kangaroos was flagged as plagiarized.

Adding human-like elements such as weird metaphors, personality, and reducing repetition improved the essay but it was still detected as plagiarized.

The essay needed to be more personable and less repetitive to mimic human writing.

Testing individual sentences to identify plagiarism led to a fully AI-written paper that appeared human on some detectors.

The challenge was not fully met as the exact sentences flagged for plagiarism were known in advance, which may not always be the case.

The perplexity and burstiness scores of real writing still exceeded the AI-generated paper.

Universities may have different detection thresholds than free online checkers.

An infinite prompt generator was used to create essays, but the results were not satisfactory.

Focusing on metaphors and providing examples for the AI to follow increased the burstiness and perplexity scores.

Despite efforts, some sentences still flagged as plagiarized, and no solution was found within the one-hour timeframe.

Open AI released their own detector that assesses if the writing was likely written by an AI, without relying on perplexity and burstiness metrics.

There is a concern that these plagiarism detection tools may become as controversial as the polygraph test.

The author is currently writing a novel with the help of chat GPT, using a prompt with a specific plot, characters, and scene summaries.

Human input is still required for quality essay writing, even when using AI assistance.