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Here’s a tip: write it in Google Docs, because the college can watch you type it letter by letter in a sorta “video” saved in the doc

Its worth noting that AI detectors are run by AI, rather fittingly, and therefore have the same major problems, such as always being a yes-man, so these will always come back as AI generated.

Actually reading what you wrote, it looks good. Recently wrote my personal statement for uni (this has just reminded me to submit my ucas application), and this has a pretty similar tone and depth, and content-wise, shows a general sense of engagement which is exactly what they want to see.

Don't worry about the AI checker. Worst case scenario, they ask you about it and you explain the reality of the situation.

AI detectors are also AI, and they work on probability. It's guessing with 44% certainty that you are AI, meaning it's more confident you're a human. I wouldn't be worried.

This detector is bad. And as an English professor it is super easy to spot ai in student papers; I wouldn't even bother scanning yours.

I had to write an article for work. For fun we ai checked it showed as big portion as ai. We checked it because a coworker was having issues with their kids professor saying their paper was ai. I wrote the damn thing from my head in front of people. Was about half ai according to checker. Am I AI?

Last year for fun, I uploaded some articles I wrote in 2015, 100% without AI (as it wasn't publicly available) into an AI checker and it said it was something like 50% sure it was AI written (or 50% of it was written by AI). These checkers are dogshit, so don't think about it.

My college’s AI detector also did this, said I plagiarised half my work. If it's anything like my experience; the chances of them taking it seriously are low unless it's 100%.

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I seriously wouldn’t rely on these online detectors much 😭 I used to, until I read this post and it helped me understand the inaccuracies. I would recommend you read it too before you stress out.

For homework I'm thinking about just recording my screen when i work on something as "proof", but i doubt that is viable here. You should probably just submit it

Did you use grammarly?

If they do flag it, ask them to put the declaration of independence in that exact same AI detector. It comes back like... over 80% possibility it's AI written. 

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These are ran by Ai trained by looking at essays written by AI. And the AI writing the essays used for the test was trained to write essays by looking at essays written by humans.

So it should really not be shocking to anyone that human essays show up as being mostly AI by these checkers.

The basis for AI written essays is human written essays so obviously AI checkers are going to be flagging human written essays as AI because that is what the AI is emulating to begin with. And it will only get worse as AI gets better at emulating human writing.

This happens far more often than people realize. These systems latch onto patterns, clean phrasing, repeated structures, even certain vocabulary choices, and treat them as signs of AI instead of normal human writing. A single false positive can make you doubt your own work, even though the problem is the detector, not you. If you want to double check how your text reads elsewhere or gather evidence that your writing is, in fact, human, it helps to compare results across multiple tools. You can check this resource that lists and compares different detectors to see how inconsistent they can be and to give yourself more context before stressing over one score.

This isn't detecting it as AI, any teacher/professor will most likely understand that 44% means it's written by a human. It has to be way higher percentage for it to be AI.

When AI tools become indistinguishable from human writing what will AI detection tools be good for then?

Make sure you aren't AI yourself. I think you skipped this part of process

I got flagged for plagiarism once on a paper I submitted and had to attend an online disciplinary. There were dozens of us with the same messages all on the same day. When at the meeting the person in charge looked at everything and put it down to confusing group work for collusion, but it doesn’t flag that so it flagged it as plagiarism. Whole call was all of 5 minutes before she determined no further action was needed and I wasn’t in trouble. Bet that was a waste of her day doing all those calls because the AI flagged it wrong.