What is the cost of abandoning academic integrity? We aren’t quite sure yet, but running the experiment might prove to be a fatal mistake. There were many AI detectors educational institutions could have anointed as their weapon of choice against AI plagiarism, such as Scribbr, Originality.AI, GPTZero, but Turnitin had the corporate momentum to become the leading software.If you're a student in 2024, it's impossible not to encounter Turnitin because it's integrated into student submission portals like Canvas and Blackboard to automatically check everything you submit. Just like it's impossible to gain access to Turnitin and test the software for yourself. You might think there's no use to fighting the status-quo but what if I told you there was a free version of Turnitin without all the caveats? A Turnitin for the people, with equal AI content detection functionality but at no cost to you. That free high-quality AI detector is AIdetect.com
Now, lets run that essay through AIdetect.com and see what happens:
As you can see, our ChatGPT essay was flagged. Only 1% of the writing in the essay was determined to be human-feeling. Any professor could confidently fail this essay. There are two other metrics AI Detect gives you to better understand your content.Readability is how conducive your text is to being read. Meaning is it engaging? Is it understandable? Does it flow? Grade level measures how well-studied you have to be to understand the text. With a grade level of 17, only a fool would think this essay was quality writing.Lastly, I wanted to run our sample through Turnitin just so you can see how comparable their capabilities are to AI Detect.
With an AI Score of 100%, you can see that AI Detect's 1% Human Score provides comparable detection power for free.
At the end of the day, AI Detect offers protection of process as a content creator or as an educator. Your process is invaluable and you shouldn't have to break the bank to protect it. Subscribe to AI Detect today, our free version is your first step to leveling the academic playing field.
Table of Contents
- What Is AI Detect?
- How Does AI Detect Work?
- How Do AI Detection Tools Work?
- Plagiarism Detection vs AI Content Detection
- Does Turnitin Work?
- Turnitin vs AI Detect
- Conclusion
- FAQ
What Is AI Detect?
AI Detect is a high-quality detection service built to offer teachers, professors, academic faculty, students, professionals, content creators, and just about anyone working with text the ability to determine if the writing they're reviewing is AI-generated.The difference between AI Detect and Turnitin though, is not just that we offer a free version with a judgement free promise, but that it has a better track record. Rather than upholding subjective notions of academic integrity, AI Detect is just here to tell you if the content passes AI detection. We encourage those who use AI writing to use AI Detect is they need help bypassing Turnitin, just as much as we encourage professors using AIdetect to review student work for AI plagiarism.There are also two key differences in functionality between AI Detect and Turnitin. First, We promise less false positives that harm students that put hard work into writing their research papers. Secondly, our algorithm doesn’t show bias like so many other detectors according to this Stanford University article which found AI detectors hold bias against non-native English speakers and international students.How Does AI Detect Work?
You have a piece of text. Whether the text is AI generated or human writing, you take that piece of text to AIdetect.com and paste it into our AI detector and click detect AI. For the sake of this sample, I had ChatGPT write us an essay on the future of student learning, shown below:How Do AI Detection Tools Work?
So, why exactly did AIDetect flag our ChatGPT essay with a 1% human score?AI Detectors like Turnitin.com aren’t just plagiarism checkers, to flag AI writing content they’re proofreading the text for the watermarks of generative AI. These watermarks include: simplicity in word choice, simple sentence structure, and a lack of human randomness and perplexity.As it turns out, the way humans write is rather complicated when you actually map it out. Humans sentences can’t be calculated as easily as ChatGPT’s which always chooses the simplest, most precise words. AI writing is perfect and often boring, and that’s what AI detectors look for.Plagiarism Detection vs AI Content Detection
Is using ChatGPT to write your essay plagiarism? Not exactly. If you run the essay through older plagiarism detection tools, they won’t the flag the same essay AI Detect gave a 1% score to. This is because generative AI tools don’t plagiarize, they don’t exactly paraphrase either.They create 100% original content after sifting through loads of research to output something that you can use, often featuring madeup references or citations that couldn’t possibly be plagiarized. No, using ChatGPT as your ghostwriter for student papers or any academic writing isn’t exactly plagiarism, it’s now categorized as AI plagiarism by some educational institutions.Meanwhile, a handful of universities embrace students using generative AI, abandoning their Turnitin accounts to avoid turning the campus into a climate of suspicion.Does Turnitin Work?
Sometimes. The follies of Turnitin, as well as other AI detectors, are three fold:False positives: AI detectors produce false positives at a relatively high rate. With Turnitin's false positive rate being 4% on the sentence level and a reported 20% of student academic writing being AI writing, this actually amounts to quite a large functionality issue.Bias: A large scientific study that tested numerous AI detectors with the exception of Turnitin proved there was a bias against international students. Why was Turnitin able to skirt testing in this silicon valley research? One can only speculate.Climate of Suspicion: Once pandora's box is opened and a healthy chunk of the student body has been accused of AI plagiarism, the entire campus can easily slide into a climate of suspicion where no student is presumed innocent. Such climates are detrimental to both learning and teaching, and force us to reevaluate the judgement that determined implementing AI detection tools necessary in the first place.Turnitin vs AI Detect
AI Detect has a free version that offers students the one tool they need if they want to incorporate AI into their student work: An AI detector. If you want to upgrade your subscription to AI Detect, you will also gain access to an AI humanizer that will allow you to generate your own AI writing.Turnitin doesn’t have a free version and offers different features for faculty and student accounts. Whether it’s publishing tools like Ithenticate that ensures you can publish work that is plagiarism-free or their originality report that can tell you if any text was the product of an AI writing or AI paraphrasing tool. Even if it's accidental plagiarism or self plagiarism, Turnitin ensures the text follows standard code for academic integrity.These features, though many, all do the same thing in repurposed ways. AI Detect simplifies them into the two essential tools for this space: Either AI writing or AI Detection. That’s it.Conclusion
Students that want to optimize their academic experience should take advantage of the new wave of AI writing tools. That shouldn’t mean getting an expensive AI detection system like Turnitin though. Instead of taking part in the contradictory practices of their problematic software, the free version of AI Detect allows you to have the same content detection capability without all the fluff.If you’re a content creator or student using AI for academic writing, you need an AI detector and AI humanizer to ensure you never get penalized. With an engine as powerful as Turnitin without the caveats, you can test your text against AIDetect and be confident you won’t face any consequences. You can check out AI Detect's pricing plans below: