NKU piloting tool to catch A.I. in papers

he introduction of Artificial Intelligence chat generators like ChatGPT created some new concern about academic integrity. A Northern Kentucky Startup created a program aimed at detecting academic work not written by the student that submitted it. Barry Burkett had a decades-old problem in mind when he created the technology. “There has been an issue for a long time with essay mills,” he said. Burkett's project also address problems that could come up with ChatGPT. “Chat GPT and GPT itself is a really cool tool. What it does is it thinks about the human language, thinks about the response it wants, thinks about what it knows and tries to get those things to work,” he said. ChatGPT can write a whole essay, but the information isn't always correct. So, whether it's a student paying someone else to write their essay for them, or a student using an artificial intelligence tool like ChatGPT, Burkett wanted to create a tool to help educators ensure the students submitting the work is the one who did the work.