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    Does dictating an essay with speech-to-text and then cleaning it up look like AI to detectors?

    My son broke his right wrist at the start of term and has been dictating his essays since. He talks through each paragraph into the voice typing feature in a...

    AI text detectionRob M.
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    I ran my own 2019 essays through a detector and half came back as AI. Is that normal?

    I did a small experiment for a workshop I teach. I dug out twelve essays I wrote in 2019, years before any of these chat assistants existed, and ran them...

    AI text detectionPriya N.
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    Is Originality.ai (or any AI detector) good enough to screen freelance writers before paying them?

    Side project question rather than a day job one. A friend and I run a small niche content site. We commission around forty articles a month from a pool of...

    Detector tools comparedHana SatoAnswered
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    A client's AI detector flagged my human-written marketing copy. What can I send them as proof?

    Landing page copy. About 1,400 words. Wrote it myself over four days in Google Docs, off a brief and a 40-minute call with the client's product lead. Two...

    Detector tools comparedLena B.Answered
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    Do AI detectors work on essays written in Spanish, German or Arabic, not English?

    I have a question about languages other than English, because I could not find a clear answer anywhere. Most of my courses are in English, but this term I also...

    AI text detectionAisha R.Answered
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    Can a teacher prove I used AI if I have my Google Docs version history?

    My daughter is 16. Her history teacher told her an essay "came back 80% AI" and that she has to meet with the head of department next week. She swears she...

    Academic integrityRob M.
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    Why does Grammarly (or spell-check and editing) make my essay score as AI?

    I am a second-year international student and English is my third language. For every essay I write the first draft myself, then I go through it with Grammarly...

    Turnitin, Canvas and schoolsAisha R.Answered
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    What should a student do if an AI detector flags their work?

    Stay calm, gather evidence of how you wrote the work, and ask for the specific basis of the concern in writing. A detector score alone is weak evidence...

    Academic integrityMaya LindqvistStaff answer
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    Are AI detectors biased against non-native English writers?

    Yes, there is good evidence that they can be. The best-known study found that popular detectors flagged more than half of essays written by non-native English...

    AI text detectionMaya LindqvistStaff answer
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    How accurate are AI text detectors, really?

    Less accurate than their marketing suggests, and far less reliable on edited or paraphrased text. Independent tests find that detectors catch unedited chatbot...

    AI text detectionMaya LindqvistStaff answer
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