Turnitin AI writing detector

Turnitin's AI writing detection tool aims to help educators identify content potentially generated by AI writing tools such as ChatGPT

The tool analyses submitted text to detect patterns and characteristics typical of AI-generated content, and the breaks content into smaller chunks or sentences, which are then overlapped to capture their context. 

Each portion of text is given a score between 0 and 1 to determine if it was likely written by a human (0) or AI (1), with AI-generated text only flagged if it is 98 percent certain.

The tool provides an overall percentage of the document that may be AI-generated, and highlights specific portions of text likely to be AI-written, including potentially AI-paraphrased content.

Artificial intelligence content detection

Artificial intelligence detection software aims to determine whether some content (text, image, video or audio) was generated using artificial intelligence (AI).

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Published: April 2023
Last updated: December 2024