It’s an odd-seeming transfer for a corporation promoting an AI writing assistant.
Superhuman announced that it has acquired GPTZero. This AI identification enterprise presents providers reminiscent of hallucination and plagiarism detection in addition to a nifty little tool that shows how a lot of the web is synthetic intelligence. Superhuman stated it plans to combine GPTZero into its Superhuman Go AI assistant to enhance the attain of its current efforts round AI and authenticity. Academics and college students will nonetheless be the precedence viewers for Superhuman following the acquisition. For its half, GPTZero emphasised that Superhuman would additionally assist put its instruments in locations the place folks have been already studying and writing. Monetary phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.
On the floor, this looks like an odd pairing. The press launch saying the acquisition focuses on considerations in regards to the public having the ability to establish AI-generated content material, however Superhuman is kind of actually encouraging folks to make use of AI to generate content material. The corporate’s hottest product is the AI writing assistant Grammarly, which does have its personal instruments for AI detection. Nevertheless the push to place AI sources all over the place in Grammarly has additionally landed Superhuman in some scorching water. Notably, the corporate tried to offer its customers AI generated suggestions that aped the voice and elegance of different writers; stated different writers have been none too pleased.
