AI Detection and Grammarly
Hi everyone, We have faculty using the AI report and are appreciating that feature. An interesting question came up recently: the report showed 64% AI-generated text, but the student claimed he had only used Grammarly, which also helps to improve phrasing. Has anyone else experienced an AI report picking up on Grammarly, and is there a way of distinguishing between a "grammar help" tool and other generative AI?
Second, will the AI report be visible to students soon? Faculty assumed that students could see it, but the report is only visible to faculty in our LMS.
Thanks,
Jennifer Douglas, American Public University System
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Hi Jennifer Douglas Many thanks for your feedback on our new AI Detection feature. We have received several similar reports of this behaviour and are running some tests. It might be worth us investigating this further for you. I will message you directly for more details.
Regarding student access to the report, this is something we will review in future.
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Our faculty have experienced a similar issue with high AI likelihood but students stating they have used Grammarly, as well as language translation tools, such as Google Translate and not tools such as Chat GPT. I would be interested to know if the Turnitin AI detection is known to identify text from these tools as AI generated also.
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Same thing here. I submitted student work and Turnitin gave it a fairly low similarity score, but 100% AI score. The student told me that he had Grammarly edit his work.
Unfortunately, he composed his work on Grammarly (at least, that is what he says), so there isn't any original document that was corrected by Grammarly.
I have assigned a few zeros to different students, and this is the only one who has come back and insisted it wasn't AI. But this is a problem. I am not going to fault a student for using Grammarly, but man there really is IMO a big difference between this and AI. Assuming that my student was telling the truth, it would be nice for turnitin to know the difference.
I think I will put in my syllabus for future classes, something to the effect that if you do choose to use Grammarly, to write out your text ahead of time, and keep the pre-edited version.
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I just encountered the same problem. According to Turnitin, a student's essay was created by AI. The student, however, claims he used Grammarly only. This is a serious problem, needless to say. Can we know by when Turnitin will be able to distinguish Grammarly from AI?
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So interesting to read this thread. I had a student yesterday state that he only used Grammarly on an assignment that came up with a 73% AI score. He also sent me a list of news articles about students who have been falsely accused of cheating based on Turnitin AI software detection. I would be interested in any progress you make Gill Rowell in working out if it's picking up Grammerly or Grammerly AI (I agree with Paul Rittman - I think it will be the latter.