Article / content spinning
I'm looking for information on how to detect article or content spinning. If a student uses these tools on an article they plagiarized can TII catch it? Thank you!
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Rio Salado AI Text Spinning websites use artificial intelligence to automatically rewrite content. In some cases, the changes made by this type of software may elude plagiarism detection software. You may be interested to read a PlagiarismToday article from 2018 about them.
In our experience the tools themselves make students' writing illegible and meaningless! So they may be able to fool plagiarism detection software but not academics or TA's who are reading the work, and we would always encourage teaching staff to make an academic judgement on the Turnitin Similarity Report.
Jonathan Bailey in his article sums up content spinning tools as follows:
"And that is where things will likely stay for a bit, a questionable technology producing garbage results for students who don’t wish to write their own essays. It’s a fitting end for a technology that, even at its best, had no legitimate use."