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How to Interpret the Result of AI Detection

To use our GPT checker, you won’t need to do any preparation work!

Take the 3 steps:

• Copy and paste the text you want to be analyzed,
• Click the button,
• Follow the prompts to interpret the result.

Our AI detector doesn’t give a definitive answer. It’s only a free beta test that will be improved later. For now, it provides a preliminary conclusion and analyzes the provided text, implementing the color-coding system that you can see above the analysis.

It is you who decides whether the text is written by a human or AI:

• Your text was likely generated by an AI if it is mostly red with some orange words. This means that the word choice of the whole document is nowhere near unique or unpredictable.
• Your text looks unique and human-made if our GPT essay checker adds plenty of orange, green, and blue to the color palette.
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• 🕵 How do GPT checkers work?

Chat GPT in Essay Writing – the Shortcomings

• The tool doesn’t know anything about what happened after 2021. Novel history is not its strong side. Sometimes it needs to be corrected about earlier events. For instance, request information about Heathrow Terminal 1 . The program will tell you it is functioning, although it has been closed since 2015.
• The reliability of answers is questionable. AI takes information from the web which abounds in fake news, bias, and conspiracy theories.
• References also need to be checked. The links that the tool generates are sometimes incorrect, and sometimes even fake.
• Two AI generated essays on the same topic can be very similar. Although a plagiarism checker will likely consider the texts original, your teacher will easily see the same structure and arguments.
• Chat GPT essay detectors are being actively developed now. Traditional plagiarism checkers are not good at finding texts made by ChatGPT. But this does not mean that an AI-generated piece cannot be detected at all.

🕵 How Do GPT Checkers Work?

An AI-generated text is too predictable. Its creation is based on the word frequency in each particular case.

Thus, its strong side (being life-like) makes it easily discernible for ChatGPT detectors.

Once again, conventional anti-plagiarism essay checkers won’t work there merely because this writing features originality. Meanwhile, it will be too similar to hundreds of other texts covering the same topic.

Here’s an everyday example. Two people give birth to a baby. When kids become adults, they are very much like their parents. But can we tell this particular human is a child of the other two humans? No, if we cannot make a genetic test. This GPT essay checker is a paternity test for written content.

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The internet is increasingly awash with text written by AI software. We need new tools to detect it.

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This sentence was written by an AI—or was it? OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, presents us with a problem: How will we know whether what we read online is written by a human or a machine?

Since it was released in late November, ChatGPT has been used by over a million people. It has the AI community enthralled, and it is clear the internet is increasingly being flooded with AI-generated text. People are using it to come up with jokes, write children’s stories, and craft better emails. 

ChatGPT is OpenAI’s spin-off of its large language model GPT-3 , which generates remarkably human-sounding answers to questions that it’s asked. The magic—and danger—of these large language models lies in the illusion of correctness. The sentences they produce look right—they use the right kinds of words in the correct order. But the AI doesn’t know what any of it means. These models work by predicting the most likely next word in a sentence. They haven’t a clue whether something is correct or false, and they confidently present information as true even when it is not. 

In an already polarized, politically fraught online world, these AI tools could further distort the information we consume. If they are rolled out into the real world in real products, the consequences could be devastating. 

We’re in desperate need of ways to differentiate between human- and AI-written text in order to counter potential misuses of the technology, says Irene Solaiman, policy director at AI startup Hugging Face, who used to be an AI researcher at OpenAI and studied AI output detection for the release of GPT-3’s predecessor GPT-2. 

New tools will also be crucial to enforcing bans on AI-generated text and code, like the one recently announced by Stack Overflow, a website where coders can ask for help. ChatGPT can confidently regurgitate answers to software problems, but it’s not foolproof. Getting code wrong can lead to buggy and broken software, which is expensive and potentially chaotic to fix. 

A spokesperson for Stack Overflow says that the company’s moderators are “examining thousands of submitted community member reports via a number of tools including heuristics and detection models” but would not go into more detail. 

In reality, it is incredibly difficult, and the ban is likely almost impossible to enforce.

Today’s detection tool kit

There are various ways researchers have tried to detect AI-generated text. One common method is to use software to analyze different features of the text—for example, how fluently it reads, how frequently certain words appear, or whether there are patterns in punctuation or sentence length. 

“If you have enough text, a really easy cue is the word ‘the’ occurs too many times,” says Daphne Ippolito, a senior research scientist at Google Brain, the company’s research unit for deep learning. 

Because large language models work by predicting the next word in a sentence, they are more likely to use common words like “the,” “it,” or “is” instead of wonky, rare words. This is exactly the kind of text that automated detector systems are good at picking up, Ippolito and a team of researchers at Google found in research they published in 2019.

But Ippolito’s study also showed something interesting: the human participants tended to think this kind of “clean” text looked better and contained fewer mistakes, and thus that it must have been written by a person. 

In reality, human-written text is riddled with typos and is incredibly variable, incorporating different styles and slang, while “language models very, very rarely make typos. They’re much better at generating perfect texts,” Ippolito says. 

“A typo in the text is actually a really good indicator that it was human written,” she adds. 

Large language models themselves can also be used to detect AI-generated text. One of the most successful ways to do this is to retrain the model on some texts written by humans, and others created by machines, so it learns to differentiate between the two, says Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, who is the Canada research chair in natural-language processing and machine learning at the University of British Columbia and has studied detection . 

Scott Aaronson, a computer scientist at the University of Texas on secondment as a researcher at OpenAI for a year, meanwhile, has been developing watermarks for longer pieces of text generated by models such as GPT-3—“an otherwise unnoticeable secret signal in its choices of words, which you can use to prove later that, yes, this came from GPT,” he writes in his blog. 

A spokesperson for OpenAI confirmed that the company is working on watermarks, and said its policies state that users should clearly indicate text generated by AI “in a way no one could reasonably miss or misunderstand.” 

But these technical fixes come with big caveats. Most of them don’t stand a chance against the latest generation of AI language models, as they are built on GPT-2 or other earlier models. Many of these detection tools work best when there is a lot of text available; they will be less efficient in some concrete use cases, like chatbots or email assistants, which rely on shorter conversations and provide less data to analyze. And using large language models for detection also requires powerful computers, and access to the AI model itself, which tech companies don’t allow, Abdul-Mageed says. 

The bigger and more powerful the model, the harder it is to build AI models to detect what text is written by a human and what isn’t, says Solaiman. 

“What’s so concerning now is that [ChatGPT has] really impressive outputs. Detection models just can’t keep up. You’re playing catch-up this whole time,” she says. 

Training the human eye

There is no silver bullet for detecting AI-written text, says Solaiman. “A detection model is not going to be your answer for detecting synthetic text in the same way that a safety filter is not going to be your answer for mitigating biases,” she says. 

To have a chance of solving the problem, we’ll need improved technical fixes and more transparency around when humans are interacting with an AI, and people will need to learn to spot the signs of AI-written sentences. 

“What would be really nice to have is a plug-in to Chrome or to whatever web browser you’re using that will let you know if any text on your web page is machine generated,” Ippolito says.

Some help is already out there. Researchers at Harvard and IBM developed a tool called Giant Language Model Test Room (GLTR), which supports humans by highlighting passages that might have been generated by a computer program. 

But AI is already fooling us. Researchers at Cornell University found that people found fake news articles generated by GPT-2 credible about 66% of the time. 

Another study found that untrained humans were able to correctly spot text generated by GPT-3 only at a level consistent with random chance.  

The good news is that people can be trained to be better at spotting AI-generated text, Ippolito says. She built a game to test how many sentences a computer can generate before a player catches on that it’s not human, and found that people got gradually better over time. 

“If you look at lots of generative texts and you try to figure out what doesn’t make sense about it, you can get better at this task,” she says. One way is to pick up on implausible statements, like the AI saying it takes 60 minutes to make a cup of coffee.

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A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay

Emma Bowman

GPTZero in action: The bot correctly detected AI-written text. The writing sample that was submitted? ChatGPT's attempt at "an essay on the ethics of AI plagiarism that could pass a ChatGPT detector tool." GPTZero.me/Screenshot by NPR hide caption

GPTZero in action: The bot correctly detected AI-written text. The writing sample that was submitted? ChatGPT's attempt at "an essay on the ethics of AI plagiarism that could pass a ChatGPT detector tool."

Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial intelligence chatbot now have a new tool of their own.

Edward Tian, a 22-year-old senior at Princeton University, has built an app to detect whether text is written by ChatGPT, the viral chatbot that's sparked fears over its potential for unethical uses in academia.

Edward Tian, a 22-year-old computer science student at Princeton, created an app that detects essays written by the impressive AI-powered language model known as ChatGPT. Edward Tian hide caption

Edward Tian, a 22-year-old computer science student at Princeton, created an app that detects essays written by the impressive AI-powered language model known as ChatGPT.

Tian, a computer science major who is minoring in journalism, spent part of his winter break creating GPTZero, which he said can "quickly and efficiently" decipher whether a human or ChatGPT authored an essay.

His motivation to create the bot was to fight what he sees as an increase in AI plagiarism. Since the release of ChatGPT in late November, there have been reports of students using the breakthrough language model to pass off AI-written assignments as their own.

"there's so much chatgpt hype going around. is this and that written by AI? we as humans deserve to know!" Tian wrote in a tweet introducing GPTZero.

Tian said many teachers have reached out to him after he released his bot online on Jan. 2, telling him about the positive results they've seen from testing it.

More than 30,000 people had tried out GPTZero within a week of its launch. It was so popular that the app crashed. Streamlit, the free platform that hosts GPTZero, has since stepped in to support Tian with more memory and resources to handle the web traffic.

How GPTZero works

To determine whether an excerpt is written by a bot, GPTZero uses two indicators: "perplexity" and "burstiness." Perplexity measures the complexity of text; if GPTZero is perplexed by the text, then it has a high complexity and it's more likely to be human-written. However, if the text is more familiar to the bot — because it's been trained on such data — then it will have low complexity and therefore is more likely to be AI-generated.

Separately, burstiness compares the variations of sentences. Humans tend to write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or complex sentences alongside shorter ones. AI sentences tend to be more uniform.

In a demonstration video, Tian compared the app's analysis of a story in The New Yorker and a LinkedIn post written by ChatGPT. It successfully distinguished writing by a human versus AI.

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Tian acknowledged that his bot isn't foolproof, as some users have reported when putting it to the test. He said he's still working to improve the model's accuracy.

But by designing an app that sheds some light on what separates human from AI, the tool helps work toward a core mission for Tian: bringing transparency to AI.

"For so long, AI has been a black box where we really don't know what's going on inside," he said. "And with GPTZero, I wanted to start pushing back and fighting against that."

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The college senior isn't alone in the race to rein in AI plagiarism and forgery. OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has signaled a commitment to preventing AI plagiarism and other nefarious applications. Last month, Scott Aaronson, a researcher currently focusing on AI safety at OpenAI, revealed that the company has been working on a way to "watermark" GPT-generated text with an "unnoticeable secret signal" to identify its source.

The open-source AI community Hugging Face has put out a tool to detect whether text was created by GPT-2, an earlier version of the AI model used to make ChatGPT. A philosophy professor in South Carolina who happened to know about the tool said he used it to catch a student submitting AI-written work.

The New York City education department said on Thursday that it's blocking access to ChatGPT on school networks and devices over concerns about its "negative impacts on student learning, and concerns regarding the safety and accuracy of content."

Tian is not opposed to the use of AI tools like ChatGPT.

GPTZero is "not meant to be a tool to stop these technologies from being used," he said. "But with any new technologies, we need to be able to adopt it responsibly and we need to have safeguards."

Student Creates App to Detect Essays Written by AI

In response to the text-generating bot ChatGPT, the new tool measures sentence complexity and variation to predict whether an author was human

Margaret Osborne

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In November, artificial intelligence company OpenAI released a powerful new bot called ChatGPT, a free tool that can generate text about a variety of topics based on a user’s prompts. The AI quickly captivated users across the internet, who asked it to write anything from song lyrics in the style of a particular artist to programming code.

But the technology has also sparked concerns of AI plagiarism among teachers, who have seen students use the app to write their assignments and claim the work as their own. Some professors have shifted their curricula because of ChatGPT, replacing take-home essays with in-class assignments, handwritten papers or oral exams, reports Kalley Huang for the New York Times . 

“[ChatGPT] is very much coming up with original content,” Kendall Hartley , a professor of educational training at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, tells Scripps News . “So, when I run it through the services that I use for plagiarism detection, it shows up as a zero.” 

Now, a student at Princeton University has created a new tool to combat this form of plagiarism: an app that aims to determine whether text was written by a human or AI. Twenty-two-year-old Edward Tian developed the app, called GPTZero , while on winter break and unveiled it on January 2. Within the first week of its launch, more than 30,000 people used the tool, per NPR ’s Emma Bowman. On Twitter, it has garnered more than 7 million views. 

GPTZero uses two variables to determine whether the author of a particular text is human: perplexity, or how complex the writing is, and burstiness, or how variable it is. Text that’s more complex with varied sentence length tends to be human-written, while prose that is more uniform and familiar to GPTZero tends to be written by AI.

But the app, while almost always accurate, isn’t foolproof. Tian tested it out using BBC articles and text generated by AI when prompted with the same headline. He tells BBC News ’ Nadine Yousif that the app determined the difference with a less than 2 percent false positive rate.

“This is at the same time a very useful tool for professors, and on the other hand a very dangerous tool—trusting it too much would lead to exacerbation of the false flags,” writes one GPTZero user, per the Guardian ’s Caitlin Cassidy. 

Tian is now working on improving the tool’s accuracy, per NPR. And he’s not alone in his quest to detect plagiarism. OpenAI is also working on ways that ChatGPT’s text can easily be identified. 

“We don’t want ChatGPT to be used for misleading purposes in schools or anywhere else,” a spokesperson for the company tells the Washington Post ’s Susan Svrluga in an email, “We’re already developing mitigations to help anyone identify text generated by that system.” One such idea is a watermark , or an unnoticeable signal that accompanies text written by a bot.

Tian says he’s not against artificial intelligence, and he’s even excited about its capabilities, per BBC News. But he wants more transparency surrounding when the technology is used. 

“A lot of people are like … ‘You’re trying to shut down a good thing we’ve got going here!’” he tells the Post . “That’s not the case. I am not opposed to students using AI where it makes sense. … It’s just we have to adopt this technology responsibly.”

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Let’s admit it — essay writing is quite a challenging task for students. Especially with the stringent deadlines, conducting research, writing , editing, and addressing to-and-fro reviews — consumes a whole lot of time and often becomes stressful. Therefore, students are always on the lookout for tools that speed up the essay writing process.

And that’s when AI writing tools make their debut! Using the best AI for essay writing makes the lives of students much easier by automatically generating the essay for them.

The rise in the popularity of artificial intelligence technology and deep learning has paved the way for the numerous AI writer tools available today. To help you understand the different types of AI tools and their benefits, we’ve uncovered the features of the top 10 AI essay generators in this article.

Let’s explore the tools and learn how they are transforming the tedious task of essay writing!

What is essay writing?

Essay writing is a part of academic writing that emphasizes formulating an idea or argument. The main objective of academic essay writing is to present a well-reasoned argument or idea. Evidence, analysis, and interpretation are the three major components of essay writing . It should have a logical structure to support the argument or idea of the essay so that it communicates clearly and concisely.

What is an AI essay writer?

AI essay writers is a tool that is designed to help students generate essays using machine learning techniques. They can be used to generate a full essay or generate a few parts of the essay, for example, essay titles, introduction, conclusion, etc.

Why should researchers use AI essay generators?

There are infinite benefits to using AI tools for writing unique essays, especially for researchers or students. Here are a few of them —

1. Saves time

Using best AI for essay writing has its own benefits. Students can take care of the research process while these AI tools write the essays for them. Be it an essay topic or a full-length essay generation, it saves a bunch of students' time.

2. Boosts productivity

Writing is a tedious task especially when you want to write an essay about a novel topic, that writer’s block starts haunting and your productivity gets affected. But, with AI, it’s the other way around and increases productivity by quickly generating the essays for you.

3. Enhances writing skills — Vocabulary and Style

Adopting the best AI essay writing AI tool not only help with creating essays but also help us hone our writing skills by giving proper suggestions about grammar, sentence structure, tone, style, and word choice.

4. Reduces stress

Students often undergo a lot of pressure and stress because of deadlines and submissions. With the best AI essay generator, they help you write essays smarter thereby reducing stress and fear in no time.

5. Facilitates multidisciplinary research

AI essay writing tools foster interdisciplinary study through their ability to scan and combine knowledge from multiple domains. That way, it helps us quickly get a grasp of new subjects or topics without a heavy-lifting process.

6. Cost-effective

Most of the AI essay writing tools have lower pricing and also allow certain discounts for students. So, it is also a cost-effective approach to use AI writing tools.

The Top AI Essay Writing Tools and Their Features

Several AI essay writers are available based on the types of essays one would want to generate. Now, let's quickly understand the top 10 AI writing tools that generate essays within just a few minutes.

1. PerfectEssayWriter.ai

It is one of the best AI for essay writing that not only creates an essay but also comes up with advanced features including plagiarism detection, auto-referencing, and contextual analysis. As a result, it generates coherent essays that are well-researched and properly cited. It is best recommended for creating academic essays and essay outlines.

How does PerfectEssayWriter work?

• Pick the right tool for your purpose — Go with an essay writer if you want to generate a full essay or choose the essay outliner if you want to create just the outline of the essay.
• Enter your specific conditions and preferences. Add essay topic, academic level, essay type, number of pages, and special instructions, if any.
• Click on “generate” and wait for the result
• Once you have the essay generated, you can review, edit, or refine it and then download it.
• Generates a large chunk of data up to 2000 words
• Output is provided within 90 seconds
• Provides a plethora of other tools like Citation generator, grammar checker, thesis statement generator, and more
• Comes with 10+ essay writing templates
• Subscription-based and not a free tool
• Human review is a mandate

2. Essaybot - Personalized AI writing

Essaybot is the product of a reputed online essay-writing service, MyPerfectWords. It is meant to enhance academic essay writing and streamline the tasks of students. Its user friendly website makes it an instant and hassle-free essay generation saving a lot of time and effort for students.

How does Essaybot work?

• Enter the essay title or topic
• Click on “start writing” and wait for it to generate a well-reasoned essay.
• The tools come for free
• No sign-up is required
• 100% unique and High-quality output
• Very limited features that lack advanced functionalities

3. FreeEssayWriter.net

FreeEssayWriter is an organization that provides essay-writing services to students worldwide. It has an AI essay typer tool — that helps you generate essays instantly. What sets this essay typer apart is its initiative to help students with their free essay writer providing the students with a 2-page free essay.

How does FreeEssayWriter.net work?

It works similarly to Essaybot, input the title or the topic of your essay and wait for it to generate the essay. They also have an option to edit and download a free version of the generated essay instantly.

• Provides high-quality essays and is considered to be one of the reliable and trusted sources of information
• Students can improve their writing skills and learn more about essays by referring to their free essay database or sources
• Priority customer support is available 24*7
• The site is not optimized for mobile devices
• The quality of the essay output could still be improved

4. MyEssayWriter

This AI essay writing tool is no exception in terms of generating a high-quality essay. You can generate essays for various topics depending on the background of your research study. Be it academic or non-academic essay writing, this tool comes in handy.

How does MyEssay Writer work?

Add your preferences and then click on generate. It will give you a high-quality and 100% unique essay crafted based on your requirements.

• The tool comes for free — no subscription is required
• Knows for its consistency in the quality and the tone of the essay output
• Also has a paid custom writing service that provides human-written essays
• Might not provide quality output for complex and technical-based keywords or topic

5. College Essay AI

College essay AI stands unique as an ai writing tool as it not only uses an AI-based algorithm to generate essays but it also backs up the output as it is reviewed and approved by a team of professional experts. It is the best AI essay writing tool for college and graduate students where the output adheres to the graduate students' essay writing guidelines.

How does the College Essay AI generator work?

• Input the required information — essay topic, academic level, number of pages, sources, and specific instructions, if any.
• Click on “generate essay” and wait for the output
• Conduct plagiarism and grammar check
• Download the essay
• High-level output for academic essay writing
• Pocket-friendly premium plans
• Doesn’t provide multiple sets of templates
• Not quite suitable for non-academic essay writing

6. Jasper AI

Jasper AI has been the oldest player in the game of AI content writing. Fast forward to now, its features have been magnified with the inception of natural language processing algorithms and that’s how they are helping students write their essays as well. However, Jasper is the best AI tool for non-academic writing projects like content writing or creative writing.

How does Jasper AI work?

• Choose a template — if you are about to write an essay, go with the “document”
• Add your preferences
• Click “compose” and get the output
• Generates the essays instantly
• Provides well-structured output according to the tone and style of your preferences
• Not quite suitable for academic writing essays

7. Textero AI

Textero AI provides a few writing tools for students that facilitate their various academic papers and writing projects. Its essay generator helps you generate ideas for a full-length essay based on the topic and also suggests new topic ideas or thesis statement ideas for your academic assignments.

How does Textero AI work?

• Click on “Essay Generator” located on the LHS (Left-hand Side)
• Input the title and description based on which you want to generate the essay
• Pick the right citation style
• Click “generate” and wait for the output
• It also provides other tools like an outline generator, and summary generator and has an AI research assistant that answers all your questions relevant to the research
• The output is 100% unique and plagiarism and error-free
• Might fail to provide an essay focussed on complex or technical topics

8. Quillbot

Though Quillbot is essentially built for paraphrasing and summarizing tasks. It comes as a rescue when you have to revamp, improvise, or refine your already-composed essay. Its co-writer helps you transform your thoughts and ideas and make them more coherent by rephrasing them. You can easily customize your text based on the customization options available.

How does Quillbot Paraphraser work?

• Import or copy the content
• Click on “Paraphrase” “Summarize” or “Suggest text” based on your requirement
• Make the required customizations and save the document.
• Offers a plethora of tools required for students
• Both free and premium plans are available
• Enhances vocabulary and language skills
• Limited customization options with the free plan
• Only supports the English language

9. SciSpace Paraphraser

SciSpace is the best AI tool that helps you fine-tune your essay. If you feel your essay writing needs AI suggestions to improve the language, vocabulary, writing styles, and tone of your essay, SciSpace is at your rescue. It has more customized options than Quillbot and improves your essay by rephrasing it according to the required or preferred writing style, and tone. This is a very good alternative to Quillbot.

How does SciSpace Paraphrasing work?

• Simply paste the content to the screen
• Choose the length and variation properly
• Select the language
• Click “Paraphrase”
• Has 22 custom tones and all of them are available even on the free plan
• Supports 75+ languages
• Comes with an AI-detection report for English paraphrase output
• Delay in the output

10. ChatGPT

It would be unfair if we talk about AI tools and do not enlist ChatGPT. When it comes to automated essay writing tasks, ChatGPT is not trivial. With proper prompts, you can automate the essay writing process and generate a well-crafted and coherent essay. However, the quality and the accuracy cannot be trusted as the model hallucinates and doesn’t include sources.

How does ChatGPT work?

• Create a prompt based on your requirement
• Ask ChatGPT to write an essay about your topic, specify conditions and preferences
• Click enter and wait for the essay
• Comes for free
• Cannot rely on the output as the model hallucinates
• Lacks the upgraded features that other essay-writing tools have

Concluding!

Writing essays can be a real struggle. But, the inception of the best AI essay-generation tools makes the entire writing process a lot easier and smoother. However, you should be extra vigilant while relying on these tools and consciously use them only as a technological aid. Because over-reliance on these AI tools could diminish student's writing skills and the user can become more gripped by the tools. So, use it wisely without affecting your knowledge and skills.

You can explore the above tools whenever you need any help with essay writing, and reap the benefits of them without compromising on the quality of your writing.

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Choosing the best AI for writing long-form essays depends on your requirements. Here are the top 5 tools that help you create long-form and college essays —

1. Free Essay Writer AI

2. College Essay AI

3. My Essay Writer

4. Textero AI

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The Perfect Essay Writer AI and Textero AI are the two best AI essay generators that help you write the best essays.

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How Do AI Detectors Work? | Methods & Reliability

Published on May 1, 2023 by Jack Caulfield . Revised on September 6, 2023.

AI detectors (also called AI writing detectors or AI content detectors ) are tools designed to detect when a text was partially or entirely generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT .

AI detectors may be used to detect when a piece of writing is likely to have been generated by AI. This is useful, for example, to educators who want to check that their students are doing their own writing or moderators trying to remove fake product reviews and other spam content.

However, these tools are quite new and experimental, and they’re generally considered somewhat unreliable for now. Below, we explain how they work, how reliable they really are, and how they’re being used.

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AI detectors are usually based on language models similar to those used in the AI writing tools they’re trying to detect. The language model essentially looks at the input and asks “Is this the sort of thing that I would have written?” If the answer is “yes,” it concludes that the text is probably AI-generated.

Specifically, the models look for two things in a text: perplexity and burstiness . The lower these two variables are, the more likely the text is to be AI-generated. But what do these unusual terms mean?

Perplexity is a measure of how unpredictable a text is: how likely it is to perplex (confuse) the average reader (i.e., make no sense or read unnaturally).

• AI language models aim to produce texts with low perplexity , which are more likely to make sense and read smoothly but are also more predictable.
• Human writing tends to have  higher perplexity : more creative language choices, but also more typos.

Language models work by predicting what word would naturally come next in a sentence and inserting it. For example, in the sentence “I couldn’t get to sleep last …” there are more and less plausible continuations, as shown in the table below.

L ow perplexity is taken as evidence that a text is AI-generated.

Burstiness  is a measure of variation in sentence structure and length—something like perplexity, but on the level of sentences rather than words:

• A text with little variation in sentence structure and sentence length has low burstiness .
• A text with greater variation has high burstiness .

AI text tends to be less “bursty” than human text. Because language models predict the most likely word to come next, they tend to produce sentences of average length (say, 10–20 words) and with conventional structures. This is why AI writing can sometimes seem monotonous.

Low burstiness indicates that a text is likely to be AI-generated.

A potential alternative: Watermarks

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, claims to be working on a “watermarking” system where text generated by the tool could be given an invisible watermark that can then be detected by another system to know for sure that a text was AI-generated.

However, this system has not been developed yet, and the details of how it might work are unknown. It’s also not clear whether the proposed watermarks will remain when the generated text is edited. So while this may be a promising method of AI detection in the future, we just don’t know yet.

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In our experience, AI detectors normally work well, especially with longer texts, but can easily fail if the AI output was prompted to be less predictable or was edited or paraphrased after being generated. And detectors can easily misidentify human-written text as AI-generated if it happens to match the criteria (low perplexity and burstiness).

Our research into the best AI detectors indicates that no tool can provide complete accuracy; the highest accuracy we found was 84% in a premium tool or 68% in the best free tool.

These tools give a useful indication of how likely it is that a text was AI-generated, but we advise against treating them as evidence on their own. As language models continue to develop, it’s likely that detection tools will always have to race to keep up with them.

Even the more confident providers usually admit that their tools can’t be used as definitive evidence that a text is AI-generated, and universities so far don’t put much faith in them.

AI detectors and plagiarism checkers may both be used by universities to discourage academic dishonesty , but they differ in terms of how they work and what they’re looking for:

• AI detectors try to find text that looks like it was generated by an AI writing tool. They do this by measuring specific characteristics of the text (perplexity and burstiness)—not by comparing it to a database.
• Plagiarism checkers  try to find text that is copied from a different source. They do this by comparing the text to a large database of previously published sources, student theses, and so on, and detecting similarities —not by measuring specific characteristics of the text.

However, we’ve found that plagiarism checkers do flag parts of AI-generated texts as plagiarism. This is because AI writing draws on sources that it doesn’t cite. While it usually generates original sentences, it may also include sentences directly copied from existing texts, or at least very similar.

This is most likely to happen with popular or general-knowledge topics and less likely with more specialized topics that have been written about less. Moreover, as more AI-generated text appears online, AI writing may become more likely to be flagged as plagiarism—simply because other similarly worded AI-generated texts already exist on the same topic.

So, while plagiarism checkers aren’t designed to double as AI detectors, they may still flag AI writing as partially plagiarized in many cases . But they’re certainly less effective at finding AI writing than an AI detector.

AI detectors are intended for anyone who wants to check whether a piece of text might have been generated by AI. Potential users include:

• Educators (teachers and university instructors) who want to check that their students’ work is original
• Publishers who want to ensure that they only publish human-written content
• Recruiters  who want to ensure that candidates’ cover letters are their own writing
• Web content writers who want to publish AI-generated content but are concerned that it may rank lower in search engines if it is identified as AI writing
• Social media moderators, and others fighting automated misinformation, who want to identify AI-generated spam and fake news

Because of concerns about their reliability, most users are reluctant to fully rely on AI detectors for now, but they are already gaining popularity as an indication that a text was AI-generated when the user already had their suspicions.

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As well as using AI detectors, you can also learn to spot the identifying features of AI writing yourself. It’s difficult to do so reliably—human writing can sometimes seem robotic, and AI writing tools are more and more convincingly human—but you can develop a good instinct for it.

The specific criteria that AI detectors use—low perplexity and burstiness—are quite technical, but you can try to spot them manually by looking for text:

• That reads monotonously, with little variation in sentence structure or length
• With predictable, generic word choices and few surprises

You can also use approaches that AI detectors don’t, by watching out for:

• Overly polite language:  Chatbots like ChatGPT are designed to play the role of a helpful assistant, so their language is very polite and formal by default—not very conversational.
• Hedging language:  Look for a lack of bold, original statements and for a tendency to overuse generic hedging phrases: “It’s important to note that …” “ X  is widely regarded as …” “ X  is considered …” “Some might say that …”
• Inconsistency in voice:  If you know the usual writing style and voice of the person whose writing you’re checking (e.g., a student), then you can usually see when they submit something that reads very differently from how they normally write.
• Unsourced or incorrectly cited claims: In the context of academic writing , it’s important to cite your sources . AI writing tools tend not to do this or to do it incorrectly (e.g., citing nonexistent or irrelevant sources).
• Logical errors:  AI writing, although it’s increasingly fluent, may not always be coherent in terms of its actual content. Look for points where the text contradicts itself, makes an implausible statement, or presents disjointed arguments.

In general, just trying out some AI writing tools, seeing what kinds of texts they can generate, and getting used to their style of writing are good ways to improve your ability to spot text that may be AI-generated.

AI image and video generators such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Synthesia are also gaining popularity, and it’s increasingly important to be able to detect AI images and videos (also called “deepfakes”) to prevent them from being used to spread misinformation.

Due to the technology’s current limitations, there are some obvious giveaways in a lot of AI-generated images and videos: anatomical errors like hands with too many fingers; unnatural movements; inclusion of nonsensical text; and unconvincing faces.

But as these AI images and videos become more advanced, they may become harder to detect manually. Some AI image and video detectors are already out there: for example, Deepware, Intel’s FakeCatcher, and Illuminarty. We haven’t tested the reliability of these tools.

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AI detectors aim to identify the presence of AI-generated text (e.g., from ChatGPT ) in a piece of writing, but they can’t do so with complete accuracy. In our comparison of the best AI detectors , we found that the 10 tools we tested had an average accuracy of 60%. The best free tool had 68% accuracy, the best premium tool 84%.

Because of how AI detectors work , they can never guarantee 100% accuracy, and there is always at least a small risk of false positives (human text being marked as AI-generated). Therefore, these tools should not be relied upon to provide absolute proof that a text is or isn’t AI-generated. Rather, they can provide a good indication in combination with other evidence.

Tools called AI detectors are designed to label text as AI-generated or human. AI detectors work by looking for specific characteristics in the text, such as a low level of randomness in word choice and sentence length. These characteristics are typical of AI writing, allowing the detector to make a good guess at when text is AI-generated.

But these tools can’t guarantee 100% accuracy. Check out our comparison of the best AI detectors to learn more.

You can also manually watch for clues that a text is AI-generated—for example, a very different style from the writer’s usual voice or a generic, overly polite tone.

Yes, in some contexts it may be appropriate to cite ChatGPT in your work, especially if you use it as a primary source (e.g., you’re studying the abilities of AI language models).

Some universities may also require you to cite or acknowledge it if you used it to help you in the research or writing process (e.g., to help you develop research questions ). Check your institution’s guidelines.

Since ChatGPT isn’t always trustworthy and isn’t a credible source , you should not cite it as a source of factual information.

In APA Style , you can cite a ChatGPT response as a personal communication, since the answers it gave you are not retrievable for other users. Cite it like this in the text: (ChatGPT, personal communication, February 11, 2023).

You can access ChatGPT by signing up for a free account:

• Follow this link to the ChatGPT website.
• Click on “Sign up” and fill in the necessary details (or use your Google account). It’s free to sign up and use the tool.
• Type a prompt into the chat box to get started!

A ChatGPT app is also available for iOS, and an Android app is planned for the future. The app works similarly to the website, and you log in with the same account for both.

It’s not clear whether ChatGPT will stop being available for free in the future—and if so, when. The tool was originally released in November 2022 as a “research preview.” It was released for free so that the model could be tested on a very large user base.

The framing of the tool as a “preview” suggests that it may not be available for free in the long run, but so far, no plans have been announced to end free access to the tool.

A premium version, ChatGPT Plus, is available for $20 a month and provides access to features like GPT-4, a more advanced version of the model. It may be that this is the only way OpenAI (the publisher of ChatGPT) plans to monetize it and that the basic version will remain free. Or it may be that the high costs of running the tool’s servers lead them to end the free version in the future. We don’t know yet.

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A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay

Teachers worried about students turning in essays written by a popular artificial intelligence chatbot now have a new tool of their own.

Edward Tian, a 22-year-old senior at Princeton University, has built an app to detect whether text is written by ChatGPT, the viral chatbot that's sparked fears over its potential for unethical uses in academia.

Tian, a computer science major who is minoring in journalism, spent part of his winter break creating GPTZero, which he said can "quickly and efficiently" decipher whether a human or ChatGPT authored an essay.

His motivation to create the bot was to fight what he sees as an increase in AI plagiarism. Since the release of ChatGPT in late November, there have been reports of students using the breakthrough language model to pass off AI-written assignments as their own.

"there's so much chatgpt hype going around. is this and that written by AI? we as humans deserve to know!" Tian wrote in a tweet introducing GPTZero.

Tian said many teachers have reached out to him after he released his bot online on Jan. 2, telling him about the positive results they've seen from testing it.

More than 30,000 people had tried out GPTZero within a week of its launch. It was so popular that the app crashed. Streamlit, the free platform that hosts GPTZero, has since stepped in to support Tian with more memory and resources to handle the web traffic.

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To determine whether an excerpt is written by a bot, GPTZero uses two indicators: "perplexity" and "burstiness." Perplexity measures the complexity of text; if GPTZero is perplexed by the text, then it has a high complexity and it's more likely to be human-written. However, if the text is more familiar to the bot — because it's been trained on such data — then it will have low complexity and therefore is more likely to be AI-generated.

Separately, burstiness compares the variations of sentences. Humans tend to write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or complex sentences alongside shorter ones. AI sentences tend to be more uniform.

In a demonstration video, Tian compared the app's analysis of a story in The New Yorker and a LinkedIn post written by ChatGPT. It successfully distinguished writing by a human versus AI.

Tian acknowledged that his bot isn't foolproof, as some users have reported when putting it to the test. He said he's still working to improve the model's accuracy.

But by designing an app that sheds some light on what separates human from AI, the tool helps work toward a core mission for Tian: bringing transparency to AI.

"For so long, AI has been a black box where we really don't know what's going on inside," he said. "And with GPTZero, I wanted to start pushing back and fighting against that."

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The college senior isn't alone in the race to rein in AI plagiarism and forgery. OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has signaled a commitment to preventing AI plagiarism and other nefarious applications. Last month, Scott Aaronson, a researcher currently focusing on AI safety at OpenAI, revealed that the company has been working on a way to "watermark" GPT-generated text with an "unnoticeable secret signal" to identify its source.

The open-source AI community Hugging Face has put out a tool to detect whether text was created by GPT-2, an earlier version of the AI model used to make ChatGPT. A philosophy professor in South Carolina who happened to know about the tool said he used it to catch a student submitting AI-written work.

The New York City education department said on Thursday that it's blocking access to ChatGPT on school networks and devices over concerns about its "negative impacts on student learning, and concerns regarding the safety and accuracy of content."

Tian is not opposed to the use of AI tools like ChatGPT.

GPTZero is "not meant to be a tool to stop these technologies from being used," he said. "But with any new technologies, we need to be able to adopt it responsibly and we need to have safeguards."

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First up was Grammarly , which prompted me to fill out a personalization quiz before I could use it. I told the site I was a grad student, interested in improving the vocabulary I use in my work, and looking to brainstorm topics for my essay. I used the text-input section to type a quick introductory paragraph and selected “Generative AI” from the list of options. When I hit the “Improve It” button, Grammarly showed me a revised version that added a bunch of words, but still said the same thing as my more concise entry. To me, that’s annoying, but if you’re trying to hit a word count, this could be useful. I was also given options like “Make it assertive,” “Make it persuasive,” and “Make it confident.” When I selected “Make it more detailed,” the generative AI did expand the information pretty significantly, but it didn’t add any citations and I’m not convinced it drew on material outside of what I inputted. When I hit “Make it persuasive,” the AI automatically assumed the bias should fall in favor of the law, but when I added more detail to my original paragraph, suggesting for argument’s sake that the law has curtailed efforts to reduce drug overdoses throughout the country, the AI assistant said, “Grammarly assistance is unavailable for this prompt because it may result in sensitive content.”

Overall, this wasn’t great for my needs, as my topic's content was too “sensitive” and the generative AI really only added a bunch of words. This one would be most useful for someone trying to hit a word count. 

Next I tested Cramly , which I hadn’t heard of before. Before upgrading to a $4/month plan, you do get to try five free prompts, so I pasted my basic intro paragraph in there and, after a few seconds, got five paragraphs in return. It was obvious the AI was pulling from external sources somehow, as it mentioned fines and prison sentences associated with the law that I hadn’t specified, but it didn’t actually cite those sources. Still, the information it provided was helpful, so this one would be great if you’re not sure how to frame or expand on a topic and need a general idea of what your essay could look like. You’ll just have to go through everything it spits back at you and look it up independently, finding solid sourcing. 

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EssayGenius is extremely easy to use. It asked me to type what I’m writing about into a box. I simply inputted the name of the law and, about 10 seconds later, got 10 paragraphs back, some with subheadings like “historical background” and “implications in criminal law and public policy.” Again, there were no citations here, but the service provided not only a lot of details that could be used as a springboard to find more, but a solid outline for what the paper could look like. The AI played both sides, objectively presenting the cases for and against the law, then provided a conclusion that made it easy to narrow down where to go with the topic. Impressively, I was able to generate all that for free, but if you want to write up to 10 essays per month, it’ll cost you $9.99 a month. 

Finally, I tried out JotBot , which I have seen advertised on social media. It asked me what I was writing about, plus if I wanted an outline, but also gave me an opportunity to upload my old essays so it could replicate my writing style. As scary as it was, the paragraphs it generated after reading some of my older work did sound more like me than standard AI does. It give me subtopic suggestions, like “impact,” “historical background,” and “controversies,” which I could select from a sidebar and, if I liked the paragraph it wrote, drag into the essay itself. From there, I could accept or reject sentences one by one as it generated new ones. I could write in the essay editing section, too, and it generated more suggestions based on what I was typing. Frankly, this one was really cool and I can see how it would help beat writer’s block with ease, since you can type and get suggestions as you go. There was a learning curve, though, and I didn’t realize how quickly I was blowing through my 10 free daily “credits,” since it’s unclear what, exactly, costs credits and how many it costs to, say, accept one suggestion. You can unlock unlimited credits, unlimited autocomplete, unlimited sources, and more for $14 per month. 

Conclusions

Overall, EssayGenius and JotBot were the best AI tools I tested. I was impressed by EssayGenius’s ability to research the topic on its own and JotBot’s mimicry of my own writing style. They do cost money, but that might be worth it if you’re someone who struggles with idea generation, outline creation, or getting into the flow of writing overall. 

Bear in mind these are not meant to churn out entire essays for you and you shouldn’t use them to do that. I don’t mean because it’s unethical, but I mean because it’s pretty easy for professors to catch you doing it . Even if you do use an AI tool to generate a whole paragraph or more, try to write it in your own voice and think of it more as a way to study and learn about your topic than have the writing done for you. 

Or, pay nothing and just use ChatGPT to generate outline ideas. I do that all the time and never have to worry about getting in trouble, cheating myself out of an education, or paying for anything. I just asked ChatGPT to generate an outline for an essay on 21 U.S.C. §856 and its impact on American harm reduction efforts and got eight sections, each with three subsections, and an easy roadmap I could follow to write my paper on my own. Doing it this way ensures I’ll actually research and learn about the topic, which is important to me, but also avoid the risk of going down for plagiarism or cheating, which is probably important to you. 

No matter what you end up doing, always run your work through a plagiarism checker (like Grammarly’s , which is better than its AI essay-writing tools) and ZeroGPT to make sure you’re not turning in something that’s going to get you in trouble.

AI Writing Detection

Turnitin's AI writing detection capability is designed to help educators identify text that might be prepared by a generative AI tool. Our AI writing detection model may not always be accurate (it may misidentify both human and AI-generated text) so it should not be used as the sole basis for adverse actions against a student. It takes further scrutiny and human judgment in conjunction with an organization's application of its specific academic policies to determine whether any academic misconduct has occurred.

This feature is only available for certain Turnitin licenses. Contact your account administrator to find out more

The AI writing indicator

When you open a Similarity Report, the AI writing indicator is in the side panel. After a short period of processing, the indicator will display one of three potential states:

The AI writing report

The AI writing report contains the overall percentage of prose sentences contained in a long-form writing format within the submitted document that Turnitin’s AI writing detection model determines was generated by AI. These sentences are highlighted in blue on the submission text in the AI writing report.

Prose text contained in long-form writing means individual sentences contained in paragraphs that make up a longer piece of written work, such as an essay, a dissertation, or an article, etc. The model does not reliably detect AI-generated text in the form of non-prose, such as poetry, scripts, or code, nor does it detect short-form/unconventional writing such as bullet points, tables, or annotated bibliographies.

This means that a document containing several different writing types would result in a disparity between the percentage and the highlights.

The percentage, generated by Turnitin’s AI writing detection model, is different and independent from the similarity score, and the AI writing highlights are not visible in the Similarity Report.

How do we detect AI-generated writing?

How Turnitin has made this determination is complex. To help our users understand Turnitin’s method of detecting AI writing text, we have created an extensive FAQ. Learn more about Turnitin’s AI writing detection tool .

AI detection will only work for content submitted in English. It will not process any non-English submissions. As we continue to iterate, we will keep you updated on developments around non-English language support.

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Need an AI checker for an essay or research paper? Try the smart tool we’ve made! With it, you’ll easily find ChatGPT-generated fragments in a piece of academic writing.

Interpreting the Results

After you click “Analyze,” the AI essay checker will provide you with you a histogram and a detailed text analysis.

The histogram shows the shares of words depending on how likely an AI writer would utilize them while generating a text on a similar topic. All the words in the text are divided into 4 categories:

• Red – the top 10 words that an AI writer would use to create a text on a given topic; many red words indicate that an essay is likely AI-generated.
• Orange – the top 100 words that a GPT tool would use.
• Green – the top 1000 words that an AI tool would utilize to generate a text on a similar topic.
• Violet – the least predictable words that a GPT writer would almost never use.

You will find a detailed text analysis under the histogram. All the words in it are highlighted according to the above-described groups. You can click on each word to see how likely it is to appear in AI-written texts and check its most common alternatives.

A human-written essay will be highlighted primarily in green, orange, and violet. In contrast, an AI-generated paper will consist of red and orange words.

• ✅ The Benefits of the Tool
• 💬 GPT-3 101
• 📑 AI-Generated Texts: Ethical Issues
• ❓ AI Finder FAQ

🔗 References

✅ ai text finder: the 4 benefits.

🕵️ AI Essay Checker: How It Works

• Insert your text (up to 4500 characters).
• Add the title or short description (up to 250 characters), optional.
• Click the button.
• Get a detailed analysis of the text for free.

The AI text finder employs the same algorithm used for text generation. I.e., it analyzes the predictability of each next word in a sentence. The more predictable they are, the more likely the text is AI-generated.

We, humans, tend to be less predictable in our expressions. We joke and make incoherent conclusions. But meanwhile, we can produce something that has never existed. AI can only generate a combination of phrases and facts from an extensive list of resources (human-written, by the way).

💬 Chat GPT: the Technology behind It

ChatGPT is a novel software product based on GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer). It uses natural language processing ( NLP ) to hold realistic and meaningful conversations with people. But that’s not its only feature.

This AI can generate fictional stories, poems, academic papers , and even computer code.

But most importantly, the chatbot can answer specific queries. For example, you were assigned to explain the difference between liberalism and socialism. You enter the question in the respective field and get a correct (and unique) answer in seconds.

Yes, the instrument provides fast and straightforward answers to any possible questions. But no, you won’t develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and other skills essential for academic and real-life success. That’s why ChatGPT has been banned in many American schools , and its use can undermine your reputation. That’s also why AI generator checkers are being developed very intensively.

Natural Language Processing

A simple explanation: NLP or natural language processing is a way to teach machines to communicate with humans. Please don’t confuse it with the notoriously known neuro-linguistic programming.

A complicated but informative explanation: NLP is an interdisciplinary AI and computer linguistics approach. It tackles the problems software faces during the analysis and synthesis of natural languages (i.e., spoken by people). The method studies voice and text information to generate human-like answers.

NLP applications:

• Speech recognition: The good old speech-to-text. “Which witch switched the Swiss wristwatches?”
• Disambiguation between same words with a different meaning. “Nothing is impossible. But I do nothing every day.”
• Parts of speech differentiation: Where are the subject, object, and predicate? “I’ll google it in Google.”
• Named early recognition (NEM) explains why some people and are called so, not otherwise. “I’ve already told you my mother’s name is Sarah! She hates being called a “mom.”
• Emotion analysis: Irony is priceless but was incomprehensible for machines before NLP. “Light is faster than sound. So, some people may appear bright before they talk.”
• Co-reference resolution: ♫♪ “She’d not been two weeks from shore when down on her a right whale bore.” “She” is the ship, not a girl.
• Natural language generator is the opposite of the good old speech-to-text, as the computer pretends to be human.

GPT-3 & Its Predecessors

Today, GPT-3 is the fastest-growing AI product, but its first developments date back to 2010 . It was the time when Natural Language Processing stated using artificial neural networks.

Meanwhile, the mechanism of GPT-3 does not differ much from its predecessors . All of them predicted each next word within a given sentence. But the number of neural network parameters kept growing. Thus, early versions with few parameters were rigid and non-user-friendly. Later releases become more flexible and adjustable.

The recent attention to the software product is so ardent due to the success of GPT-3.

📑 AI-Generated Essays: Ethical Issues

ChatGPT has raised much concern among researchers, professors, and businesspeople. In particular, they claimed it to be:

• A form of cheating to accelerate homework writing;
• A way to produce a lot of content of questionable quality.

Proponents of the AI tool say that teachers feared that Google could assist students’ cheating. But adaptability is the trait that allowed us to become the most developed creature on Earth. Google revolutionized how we search for information, and AI will revolutionize how we produce and consume content.

But before that happens, you should check your writing in Chat GPT finder.

❓ AI Essay Finder FAQ

❓ what does ai generated text look like.

A text generated by AI is highly predictable. It uses the most standard and recognizable expressions to make the writing more human-like. In the meantime, such AI speech generators as Chat GPT produce impeccable texts that are not so easily detectable. To do so, you’ll need an online AI generated text finder.

❓ How To Generate Text Using AI?

The specific mechanism of text generation varies depending on the tool. But in most cases, you’ll have to enter a question or query and press the button to get an answer. The instrument can also require you to make extra adjustments.

❓ Is It Ethical to Generate Texts Using AI?

Generating texts with AI can be fine, frowned upon, or illegal, depending on your purposes. In academia, you cannot present a computer-generated text as your own. If detected, AI-generated essays will be construed as plagiarized. They can destroy your reputation as a good college student or scientist.

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The Reasons to Check Essay for AI

Both teachers and students can benefit from a timely check if essay was written by AI. As a student, checking your essays for AI can help ensure that your work is original and personal. It can help you avoid accidental plagiarism or accusations of reliance on AI-generated content. For teachers, AI detectors can also be a valuable addition to the toolkit, since it helps in maintaining academic integrity. They can use these tools to verify that students submit their own work rather than AI-generated nonsense.

Among the major benefits of AI checkers’ assistance include preventing academic dishonesty, encouraging original thinking, and improving the quality of education. By detecting AI-generated content early, students and teachers can address any issues before they become serious problems. This proactive approach can lead to a more honest and productive learning environment, where the produced work is genuine and reflective of the individual’s thoughts and efforts.

AI Generated Essay Checker: Quick Usage Guide

AHelp free AI Essay Checker provides a straightforward approach to AI detection. First, you need to register on our platform to create your account. Then, all you need is your document. Our tool supports the upload of various file types: from pdf to, DOC, as well as rtf and odt files. You can also just insert the text into the platform’s field if that works for you.

After that, you just press the “Detect AI Content” button and wait for the results. When everything’s ready, you will receive the general percentage of AI-generated content spotted in your work. Aside from that, you will also see a breakdown of which parts have a lower and higher likelihood of being created by AI. 

Remember, our tool can accessed for free and you will be able to do three checks a day like that. You can also opt for one of our subscription plans if you are interested in long-term assistance or in case you are planning on checking a couple of documents.

Tips for Working with AI Paper Checker

We all know how these AI detectors work: you upload or copy-paste your work into the tool, the algorithms run their check, and you receive the percentage of AI-generated content detected in your work. Yet, there are a few tricks that can make the checking process more effective and lead to more accurate results.

• Use Multiple Checkers – Don’t rely on just one AI checker. Use different tools to cross-check results and get a more accurate assessment. You can work with AHelp AI Essay Checker at first and then run the same text through another platform for verification.
• Analyze Writing Style – Pay attention to the writing style of the paper. You will see that AI-generated content often lacks a personal touch or voice. If the style seems too uniform or lacks depth, it might be AI-generated.
• Check for Logical Flow – Most of the time, AI struggles with maintaining a consistent logical flow. Examine the paper for any sudden jumps in logic or disjointed arguments.
• Look for Repetition – AI-generated content may repeat certain phrases or ideas. This is actually one of the aspects by which AI detectors recognize such content. So, you can also look for patterns of repetition that seem unnatural.
• Test for Understanding – If you suspect a section is AI-generated, you can either run this specific section through AI Essay Checker or try rephrasing the question or statement. You can then see if the response still makes sense. AI might struggle with nuanced changes.
• Examine Citations – Check the references and citations. Content created by artificial intelligence might cite sources that are irrelevant or nonexistent. This can also be checked by an AI Detector though.

Don’t forget that you can also check the document part by part to identify specifically problematic places in writing. Overall, with the help of these tips, you can enhance the effectiveness of AI paper checkers and ensure that your or your students’ writing is original and of high quality.

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How do you check if an AI wrote an essay?

To quickly check if an AI wrote an essay (either yours or somebody else’s), you can use AI detection tools like GPTZero, OpenAI's AI Text Classifier, or AHelp AI Essay Checker. These tools use special algorithms that recognize writing patterns, consistency, and other linguistic features to determine if the content is likely generated by AI.

Are AI essay detectors accurate?

Even though AI essay detectors are continually improving, for now, they are not 100% accurate. They can approximately pinpoint whether a text is AI-generated, but there may be false positives or negatives. Mostly, the accuracy of these services depends on the complexity of the AI model used and the sophistication of the detection tool.

Can teachers tell if an essay was written by AI?

Teachers might be able to suspect if an essay was written by AI based on a few characteristics such as unnatural language patterns, lack of personal voice, or inconsistencies in writing style. Nonetheless, without the help of specialized detection tools, it can be challenging for them to definitively tell if an essay was written by AI. That’s why a lot of teachers now use AI Detectors as special assistance in their work.

Can schools detect AI writing?

Yes, schools can detect AI writing by using AI detection software as part of their plagiarism and academic integrity checks. These tools, like AacdemicHelp’s AI Essay Checker, can help find out whether a piece of writing submitted by a student has characteristics typical of AI-generated content.

Do colleges use AI detectors?

Certainly, today, many colleges and universities are using AI detectors as part of their academic integrity measures. They may employ these tools to make sure that students' work is original and to maintain the integrity of their academic programs. Some of the most popular platforms used by institutions are Turnitin, OpenAI's AI Text Classifier, and GPTZero. Yet, it is worth noting that some institutions chose to abandon these practices altogether because of the high false positive rates of this technology.

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My human written essay was flagged for AI, what do I do

So I wrote a final paper for one of my classes at the end of the quarter, and because it was human written I didn’t think I’d be flagged so like I do at the end of every year, I deleted all documents from the year to clear space on my computer. That includes document history. I’ve already looked for it in deleted but it’s no use cause I already cleared it.

My professor texts me saying turnitin flagged my essay for 73 percent AI. Since I didn’t have the document to show history I simply offered to re write the essay which he agreed to. My second essay was still flagged and he failed my essay anyways. I kept the second document.

Without the first document I don’t even know if I can refute it. My A- went to a C and my GPA fell to a 3.8 to a 3.28. Any advice?

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British Academics Despair as ChatGPT-Written Essays Swamp Grading Season

‘It’s not a machine for cheating; it’s a machine for producing crap,’ says one professor infuriated by the rise of bland essays.

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The increased prevalence of students using ChatGPT to write essays should prompt a rethink about whether current policies encouraging “ethical” use of artificial intelligence (AI) are working, scholars have argued.

With marking season in full flow, lecturers have taken to social media in large numbers to complain about AI-generated content found in submitted work.

Telltale signs of ChatGPT use, according to academics, include little-used words such as “delve” and “multifaceted,” summarizing key themes using bullet points and a jarring conversational style using terms such as, “Let’s explore this theme.”

In a more obvious giveaway, one professor said an advertisement for an AI essay company was  buried in a paper’s introduction ; another academic noted how a student had  forgotten to remove a chatbot statement  that the content was AI-generated.

“I had no idea how many would resort to it,” admitted  one U.K. law professor .

Des Fitzgerald, professor of medical humanities and social sciences at  University College Cork , told  Times Higher Education  that student use of AI had “gone totally mainstream” this year.

“Across a batch of essays, you do start to notice the tics of ChatGPT essays, which is partly about repetition of certain words or phrases, but is also just a kind of aura of machinic blandness that’s hard to describe to someone who hasn’t encountered it—an essay with no edges, that does nothing technically wrong or bad, but not much right or good, either,” said Professor Fitzgerald.

Since  ChatGPT’s emergence in late 2022 , some universities have adopted policies to allow the use of AI as long as it is acknowledged, while others have begun using AI content detectors, although  opinion is divided on their effectiveness .

According to the  latest Student Academic Experience Survey , for which Advance HE and the Higher Education Policy Institute polled around 10,000 U.K. undergraduates, 61 percent use AI at least a little each month, “in a way allowed by their institution,” while 31 percent do so every week.

Professor Fitzgerald said that although some colleagues “think we just need to live with this, even that we have a duty to teach students to use it well,” he was “totally against” the use of AI tools for essays.

“ChatGPT is completely antithetical to everything I think I’m doing as a teacher—working with students to engage with texts, thinking through ideas, learning to clarify and express complex thoughts, taking some risks with those thoughts, locating some kind of distinctive inner voice. ChatGPT is total poison for all of this, and we need to simply ban it,” he said.

Steve Fuller, professor of sociology at the  University of Warwick , agreed that AI use had “become more noticeable” this year despite his students signing contracts saying they would not use it to write essays.

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He said he was not opposed to students using it “as long as what they produce sounds smart and on point, and the marker can’t recognize it as simply having been lifted from another source wholesale.”

Those who leaned heavily on the technology should expect a relatively low mark, even though they might pass, said Professor Fuller.

“Students routinely commit errors of fact, reasoning and grammar [without ChatGPT], yet if their text touches enough bases with the assignment, they’re likely to get somewhere in the low- to mid-60s. ChatGPT does a credible job at simulating such mediocrity, and that’s good enough for many of its student users,” he said.

Having to mark such mediocre essays partly generated by AI is, however, a growing complaint among academics. Posting on X,  Lancaster University  economist  Renaud Foucart  said marking AI-generated essays “takes much more time to assess [because] I need to concentrate much more to cut through the amount of seemingly logical statements that are actually full of emptiness.”

“My biggest issue [with AI] is less the moral issue about cheating but more what ChatGPT offers students,” Professor Fitzgerald added. “All it is capable of is [writing] bad essays made up of non-ideas and empty sentences. It’s not a machine for cheating; it’s a machine for producing crap.”

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