It seems like a strange move for a company that sells AI writing assistants.
Superhuman announced that it has acquired GPTZero. This AI detection business offers services like hallucination and plagiarism detection, as well as a small tool that shows how much of the Internet is artificial intelligence. Superhuman said it plans to integrate GPTZero into its Superhuman Go AI assistant to improve the reach of its existing efforts around AI and authenticity. Teachers and students will be the priority audience for Superhuman even after the acquisition. For its part, GPTZero emphasized that Superhuman would also help by placing its tools in places where people were already reading and writing. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
On the surface, this seems like an odd pairing. The press release announcing the acquisition focused on concerns about the public being able to identify AI-generated content, but Superhuman is actually encouraging people to use AI to generate content. The company’s most popular product is the AI writing assistant Grammarly, which has its own tools for detecting AI. However, the pressure to place AI resources everywhere in Grammarly has also put Superhumans in some trouble. Specifically, the company tried to give its users AI-generated feedback that was consistent with the voice and style of other writers; Said other writers were also not very happy.
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