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Artificial Intelligence (AI) models such as Google Bard and Microsoft Copilot can do math, generate code, summarize an article, and write realistic, even authoritative-sounding product reviews, research papers and news.
Conversation Questions
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What is the difference between generative AI and human written text?
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How does AI create content?
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What concerns should we have about AI content?
Key Definitions
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Artificial Intelligence or AI: The capability of computer systems or algorithms to imitate intelligent human behavior
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Generative AI: Artificial intelligence that is capable of generating new content (such as images or text) in response to a submitted prompt (such as a query) by learning from a large reference database of examples
Research and Learn with Online Resources
Other Resources
Websites
AI Detectors
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Turnitin - limited free AI source for detecting similarity or plagiarism detection
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GPTZero- limited free AI source for detecting ChatGPT, GPT4, LLaMA 2, human and AI and human content. Created in January 2023 by Princeton journalism major, Edward Tian
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NewsGuard - free two week source where journalists “fingerprint” misinformation and provide citations to credible sources
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Copyleaks- Plagiarism and AI detection
Detecting AI Images
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Google Images -Reverse search
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Exif Data Exchangeable Image File annotation finder
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TinEye - Reverse search
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YouTube DataViewer - Citizen Evidence Lab, Amnesty International
Videos and Podcasts
Verify/ How to Spot Fake AI-generated Content, May 24, 2023
AI Today Podcast #61: AI in News & Journalism — Use Case Series
Cognilytica’s founders give a positive overview of how AI is used in the news, including breaking news content, suggested content and headlines, editing, streamlining workflow and sorting user-created content. Reuters is given as an example of a news service using X to generate content.
Articles
How to Identify AI-Generated Content: Top 4 Ways That Help by Sneha Chugh, October 27, 2023
This comprehensive list from the international academic blog, Emeritus provides much more than 4 ways to identify AI-generated content. Use the blog as a tool to learn what an AI image looks like and how to find watermarks, try AI-generated text detectors from one page, learn to detect AI-generated text yourself, and click on additional links for more information.
Bot or Not? How To Tell When You Are Reading Something Written by AI by Clare Duffy and Kenneth Uzquiano, illustrated by Will Mullery, July 11, 2023
Journalists from CNN prompt ChatGPT to create articles varying from political news to a product review and debunk each, demonstrating what to look for.