AI-writing detection tools

Can they prove you’re human?

You’d never thought it would come to this, did you? Writers have to prove that they’re human. But this is a valuable test to pass for any writer in the age of generative AI.

Why? Because not only AI-created content can sound like a robot spat it out. Yours can, too.

AI detection tools analyze whether the content was created by AI or by a human and whether it sounds robotic. These are not plagiarism tools that scan the web and flag duplicates. All they do is analyze the tone and voice of the text and scrutinize whether it sounds like a machine wrote it.

Your human writing, too, may veer into the inexpressive and come across as impassive, and it helps to plug your text into one of these tools and get answers.

Careful, though: They aren’t foolproof and may identify original content as automated output or AI content as human-written. OpenAI, the entity behind ChatGPT, admitted recently that “while some (including OpenAI) have released tools that purport to detect AI-generated content, none of these have proven to reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content.”

Regardless, they can give you an indication of how something may come across to your readers. These detectors run algorithms, perform linguistic…