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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could some check this document for me in turnitin if this document content AI or not because I do not have access to turnitin.
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Can someone tell me how much is the percentage of AI for this file? and on what?
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Write for me a simple but important tips for a good skincare user and how to live a healthy lifestyle
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I am a professional copywriter, and it 100% does. I can write an article, just me writing, and then use Grammarly to clean it up, and it will pop quite high for AI. Why? Because it is using AI to help edit.
Another thing that I have noticed is I can ask AI to check for AI when I write, and it will say that AI likely wrote it due to the logical format and patterns. So, essentially, AI will detect AI if it is well-written. It assumes humans are all amateur writers. When I bring this up, it will say, 'oh, you are correct, a professional writer could have written this because they will follow a logical hierarchy and flow ... '
So, in essence, the detectors suck. The best thing to look for is repeated subordinate clauses throughout (over-usage) phrases like, in a world of ... the realm of ... and delve ... AI loves the word delve. AI also loves to introduce and draw conclusions for each section. Humans usually wont introduce each section. -
In my experience, the paid Turnitin AI detection tool is the most accurate on the market right now. In fact, I have caught papers that were AI generated that Turnitin did not seem to catch. Grammarly has now embedded gen AI tools that will ask students in what type of tone and mood they want their writing as well as change entire phrases--so when the Turnitin detector detects AI, it is technically doing its job!
I am a writing instructor, so any kind of rephrasing along those lines are unacceptable in my opinion. Thank you, Turnitin, for keeping on top of this evolving issue.