Artificial intelligence is putting instructors and employers in an awkward position when it comes to accepting written work, leaving them wondering: Who wrote this? A human or AI?
But imagine a digital watermark that could remove the guesswork and actually flag AI-generated text whenever someone submits their writing. A University of Florida engineering professor is developing this technology right now.
“If I’m a student and I’m writing my homework with ChatGPT, I don’t want my professor to detect that,” said Yuheng Bu, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.
Using UF’s supercomputer HiPerGator, Bu and his team are working on an invisible watermark method for Large Language Models designed to reliably detect AI-generated content – even altered or paraphrased – while maintaining writing quality.