When it surfaced, educational institutions were concerned about it being used for cheating. It then scrapes text from across the internet to formulate a response. Users can ask it questions and assign it to produce things such as essays, poetry or computer code. I spent New Years building GPTZero - an app that can quickly and efficiently detect whether an essay is ChatGPT or human written- came out in November, and was released by San Francisco-based OpenAl.