Sapling was co-founded in 2019 by Ziang Xie, and is headquartered in San Francisco. It has an entire range of products and services for various AI-related solutions, including an AI detector capable of identifying content from different AI models.
Like most tools, Sapling comes with a simple interface that consists of input fields where users can either type in or paste their material. Once this is submitted, it immediately analyses the submission to determine sections that may have been written by AI.
However, as much as it lays claim to various abilities, the performance of Sapling is not infallible. A fair number of its users have reported cases of false positivism as regards its analysis, thus questioning its reliability.
Sapling is popularly known by this title, although it is also known by the name Sapling Intelligence, especially in terms of its AI detection capability. The AI detector within the frame of the Sapling is trained to flag texts suspected of being written by AI.
While regarded as an excellent AI detection tool, it still has clouds hanging over it, as discussions run on the web doubting whether it is reliable.
To strengthen Sapling’s claim to reliability, a study about its performance should be carried out so that the platform’s capacity for detecting AI can be objectively measured. Let’s get deeper into the Sapling review.
Sapling provides a wide range of detection processes for its users, from in-browser applications to downloadable extensions to API access. When a piece of text is submitted, this service returns an AI-generation likelihood percentage.
While Sapling claims that it can detect more than 97% of all AI-generated texts, with only less than 3% as false positives, in our tests, Sapling was much less accurate than that.
Pros
- Free version with no signup
- Trained on state-of-art AI models
- Inspection of the likelihood of AI in every sentence
Cons
- There are text limitations.
- Based on privileges, false positives are largely too large
- Availability of an extension for Chrome alone.
Features of Sapling
Testing the reliability of Sapling
Is Sapling built for the test? Or does it prove the punch-throwers of previous Reddit debates? Tests were done to check Sapling’s features.
Per-sentence AI detection
As with other AI detectors, Sapling has per-sentential AI detection: though most take entire texts for AI-pattern detection, Sapling goes beyond that. At the very bottom of the tool are those individual sentences probably generated by AI due to the very low perplexity values.
Free Version
This is because Sapling has a free version AI detector that limits output to about 2,000 characters, or roughly 400-500 tokens. The only way users can paste texts of up to 50,000 characters (about 10,000 to 12,500 tokens) is by purchasing an upgrade to the Pro or Enterprise subscription.
Chrome Extension
By installing the AI Content Detector for ChatGPT extension created by Sapling.ai, users can scan the web for AI-generated content. The other option is that users also edit the already analyzed text and recheck their work.
Percentage Score
Sapling straightforwardly presents the AI detection results. A simple bar right below the input text shows how much the text is “Fake” from 0 to 100%.
Highlighted Texts
Once the input text has been analyzed, Sapling highlights the areas of the content and the individual sentences that it considers AI-generated. Multiple shades are used to indicate the probability of machine writing in those specific parts.
AI Content Detection at Its Best
Sapling boasts top-notch AI content identification capabilities, including work generated by the latest language models like GPT-4, thanks to its complex writing analysis functions.
Pricing
Sapling has a free version that permits the checking of shorter pieces of content for AI detection while allowing an unlimited number of texts to be checked as long as they do not exceed 2,000 characters. Longer texts, therefore, will have to be split into multiple smaller texts for examination.
Paid subscriptions would allow for the processing of longer texts. With Pro and Enterprise subscriptions, up to 50,000 characters can be checked.
Conclusion
I guess Sapling is an easy and convenient AI-checking tool. That said, what I am specifically told is how Sapling should be applied cautiously alongside the opportunity that it comes up with some beautiful results.
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