First documented in January 2023 on Twitter. Activity has wound down; primarily documented now for historical and reference purposes.
Tools emerge claiming to identify AI-generated text with mixed success.
GPTZero and similar detection tools launched in early 2023, promising to distinguish human writing from AI-generated content. Teachers embraced them eagerly, but accuracy proved inconsistent—flagging false positives and missing obvious AI text. The arms race between AI writers and detectors became a defining education tech story of 2023.
> Artificial Intelligence dominated 2023 discourse as ChatGPT, image generators, and AI tools went mainstream
> OpenAI's conversational AI launched November 2022, dominated 2023, and kicked off mainstream AI revolution
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