ChatGPT developer OpenAI has quietly shuttered its "AI Classifier" tool, which it introduced to the world mere months before. As AI Classifier was developed with the sole purpose of detecting generative AI content outputted by its own software, its shuttering is significant in the context of the multiple copyright lawsuits OpenAI is already juggling. The reason cited for the shuttering of AI Identifier rests with its low accuracy, which hovered at a paltry 26%. The move comes mere days after a number of AI-invested companies (including OpenAI) vowed to do just the opposite.
The main issue here stems from AI's opaqueness; an operational black box that seemingly means that being an AI product developer isn't enough to allow you to identify your product's output (which is as basic a capability as it gets).
