iA Author 7, the newest model of the minimalist multi-platform writing software program, has a brand new function that’s designed to obviously mark textual content contributed by generative AI methods like ChatGPT. Whereas your individual phrases seem in black, you’ll be able to select for AI-generated textual content copied into your iA doc to be greyed out. Then, as you tweak and edit the AI additions you’ll be able to simply maintain observe of how a lot textual content is your authentic work and the way a lot is artificially generated.

In its weblog submit in regards to the function, the corporate outlines its philosophy about utilizing AI-generated textual content in writing. Fairly than letting AI turn into a “ghostwriter” that “takes over” and makes you “lose your voice,” iA Author’s function is designed to encourage you to make use of AI “as a dialog companion” that “makes you assume extra and write higher.”

Though there are automated parts to the authorship function, I discovered it to be a largely handbook course of throughout my temporary testing. “It’s as much as you to determine how trustworthy you wish to be with your self,” iA’s weblog submit notes. Though the software program acknowledged my AI textual content once I copied it in from ChatGPT’s web site on desktop, it solely did so once I included the unique immediate alongside ChatGPT’s response. iA Author didn’t acknowledge textual content from ChatGPT if I solely copied over the generative AI’s response with out my immediate. To manually get it to seem as AI textual content, you’ll be able to proper click on, choose “Paste As” after which select “ChatGPT.”

Because of this, the function is much less about detecting plagiarism or watermarking AI-generated content material, and extra about giving creatives a device to see the typically blurry line between their very own phrases and people contributed by generative AI.

The authorship function is simply obtainable with iA Author’s Mac, iOS, and iPadOS apps for now, and the corporate says it’s planning to convey it to iA Author’s different platforms like Home windows and Android sooner or later. However extra fascinating is that iA has printed the spec on Github, and says it’s open to working with different apps to “ideally” flip the function into a brand new normal.