About the lab
Et Al Labs studies authorship: who wrote a text, and how to say so honestly.
1The name
On an author list, et al. is where the other contributors go. We think that is the right place for a language model in scholarship. A model can contribute to a paper, but it cannot answer for one. It should be credited as a contributor, never listed as first author, and never used as a ghostwriter.
2What we build
We build two families of models. QED writes academic prose from an author's notes, in that author's voice. Sic reads a text and shows which sentences look machine-written. QED is named for the end of a proof, and Sic for a quotation reproduced exactly as found.
Methods and benchmarks for each release are on the research page.
3Principles
- No evasion
- Nothing we build is designed to lower a detector score.
- Your own voice
- QED writes in a voice you supply from your own writing. It does not imitate other authors.
- Evidence, not verdicts
- Sic reports scores and their error rates. It does not decide who wrote a text.
4Contact
For questions, corrections, or a larger allowance for a study or a class, write to hello@etal-labs.com.