11 May 2024

OpenAI says it can now identify images generated by OpenAI — mostly

Britney Nguyen

OpenAI is tackling an increasingly pressing issue: fake images generated by its own technology.

The AI company announced on Tuesday that it is launching a tool to detect content created by its DALL-E 3 text-to-image generator. The company also said it’s opening applications for a first batch of testers for its image detection classifier, which “predicts the likelihood that an image was generated” by its DALL-E 3.

“Our goal is to enable independent research that assesses the classifier’s effectiveness, analyzes its real-world application, surfaces relevant considerations for such use, and explores the characteristics of AI-generated content,” OpenAI said in a statement.

OpenAI said internal testing of an early version of its classifier showed high accuracy for detecting differences between non-AI generated images and content created by DALL-E 3. The tool correctly detected 98% of DALL-E 3 generated images, while less than 0.5% of non-AI generated images were incorrectly identified as AI generated.

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