Faculty will need to use caution when considering AI Authoring tools with their students. The following should be considered before implementing them in a course:
- Any software or tool that requires students to enter information must go through the Courseware Review process to ensure that university privacy, security, accessibility standards are met.
- The instructor must provide clear guidelines about the acceptable and unacceptable use of AI in their courses. These guidelines should be stated in the syllabus and the assignment instructions.
- The instructor should include a module on Artificial Intelligence Literacy to ensure that students are aware of the benefits and risks associated with using the AI.
- The instructor should only use assignments where students enter level 1 information per PSU policy AD95.
- The instructor must permit students to opt out of using AI and provide an alternate assignment.
Following are examples of AI generation tools available as of January 8, 2023. Venture capital firm NFX identifies over 450 startups building generative AI (Currier, 2022). Keywords: AI generation tools, AI content creation tools; AI content generator + text, art, image, video
Text
- Article Forge: 5-day free trial, plans starting at $13/mo, see Article Forge pricing
- ChatGPT: Account required, free during research phase, $40/month for premium subscription
- ContentBot: Pre-paid $1/1,000 words; plans starting at $29/month, Contentbot pricing
- CopyAI: Free up to 2,000 words per month, 7-day free trial of Pro plan, Pro Plan $49/mo, see Copy.ai Pricing
- Copysmith: Free trial available, plans starting from $19/mo, see Copysmith pricing
- FreeGPT: No cost. Purportedly written by ChatGPT, a version of itself for public use.
- Jasper: 5-day free trial, plans starting from $40/mo estimated, see Jasper pricing
- Rytr: Uses GPT-3. Free plans up to 10,000 characters per month, plans starting at $9 per month, see Rytr pricing
- Writesonic: 6,250-word free trial, plans starting from $12.67/mo, see Writesonic pricing
- Reddit GPT on Discord: Free with Free Reddit account
Image
- Craiyon: Free, formerly DALL-E Mini
- DALL-E 3: From OpenAI. Pay-as-you-go plans, see OpenAI pricing
- Jasper: Free trial available, plans starting from $40/mo estimated, see Jasper pricing
- Photosonic: Free trial available, plans starting at $10/mo, see Photosonic pricing
- Stable Diffusion: Free
- StarryAI: Free
- Illustroke: Cost by tokens, see Illustroke bundle pricing
- StockIMG: Free basic plan, Premium and Enterprise plans, see StockIMG Pricing
- Midjourney: Currently free in Beta
Video
- Designs.ai: Free trial, plans start at $29/month, see Designs.ai pricing
- Elai: Make a 1-minute video for free. Plans starting at $29/mo., see Elai pricing
- Pictory: Free trial (3 videos up to 10 minutes each), plans start at $19/mo., see Pictory pricing
- RawShorts: Free trial available, plans start at $20/mo, see RawShorts pricing
- Steve AI: Plans start at $15/mo, see Steve AI pricing
- Synthesia: Free trial, personal plan $30/mo, see Synthesia pricing
- Synthesys: Plans start at $23/mo for audio synthesis Synthesys pricing
Music
- Beatoven: Free basic plan, Pro plan at $20/mo, see Beatoven Pricing
- Jukebox: Create music in the style of an existing artist, in development
Other
- Elicit: AI research assistant for research tasks
- PHIND: AI search engine for developers
- Perplexity: AI search engine
- ELIZA: an early AI chatbot for psychotherapy (1960s)
- Debuild: AI for writing code for React apps
- Krisp: Removes background voices, noises, and echo from calls
- Cleanvoice: Automatically edit podcast episodes
- Podcastle: Studio-quality recording from your computer
- Flair: Design-branded content
- Patterned: Unique patterns, the digital version of cloth swatches
- CopyMonkey: Create Amazon listings
- Ocoya: Create social media content
- Unbounce: Write digital ads, blog posts, sales emails
- Vidyo: Make short videos from long ones
- Maverick: Create video for boosting ecommerce
- QuickChat: For building AI assistants
- PuzzleLabs: Create an AI-powered glossary
- Mem: Ai-powered self-organizing workspace
- LawDroid: AI legal assistant to research legal issues, draft emails/letters, summarize docs
- NoCode: Create personalized GPT-3 model
- MarketingBlocks: Create marketing collateral
- Hyyype: AI marketing assistants
- Explainpaper: Upload a paper, highlight confusing text, get an explanation
- Tome: Create presentation slides
- Calligraphy.ai: Creates handwriting from typed text
- Nolej: AI eLearning authoring tool
- Verse by Verse: Free, experimental AI for writing poetry, from Google AI Semantic Experiences
See also: Antler: The Generative AI Landscape
AI Text Detection Tools (“AI-giarism detection)
- GPT-2 Output Detector (From Open AI, the makers of ChatGPT) Claims a detection rate of 05% for machine-generated text using GPT-2. OpenAI recommends using in conjunction with additional approaches. (OpenAI claims 95% accuracy)
- Giant Language Model Text Room (GLTR) (From Harvard and IBM) (Strobelt & Gehrmann, 2019) Developed to test for GPT-2. Detects likelihood that words were predicted by a bot. Generates a certain level for each. Color-coded results to aid interpretation (green and yellow, high likelihood of automated generation; red and purple, unlikely predictions and strong indicators of human-written text).
- Originality.AI, combines plagiarism and AI detection, pricing $0.01 per credit, 1 credit scans 100 words. Trained to predict content generated with GPT versions at 94% accuracy.
- GPTZeroX: Created by Princeton University student Edward Tian for educators. Supports large text inputs and file uploading, claims to identify portions written by AI. Scores on “perplexity” (measure of randomness determined by how likely the next word could have been suggested by a bot–the lower the score, the more likely computer generated) and “burstiness” (measures spikes of perplexity–variations in sentence length and complexity are more likely written by humans). The closer to 0 score, the greater the likelihood that the text was computer-generated. False-positive rate estimated 2%. Now in 2nd version.
- AI Classifier: (From Open AI, the makers of ChatGPT) Indicates likelihood that text is automated or human written. Reliability not guaranteed: 26% true positive rate; 9% false positive rate. Reliability improves with longer text, but still not guaranteed. Errs on the side of human-written. Unreliable for non-English text or code. Not recommended for use as a primary decision-making tool.
Related Tools
Keras Tokenizer: https://keras.io/api/preprocessing/text/ Quillbot: https://quillbot.com/ (text spinning tool)
Thanks to the Center for eLearning Initiatives at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College for their support in compiling this list.