There are also web tools like the ones I used to check my student essay, like Copyleaks, Sapling, and Winston AI, or others like GPTZero and the " AI classifier" released by OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. Its CEO Chris Caren told me that the software's false positive rate (when it wrongly identifies human-written text as AI) stands at 1%. For example, Turnitin, a plagiarism prevention software company that is used by educational institutions, released AI writing detection in April. In the case of student cheating, the reassuring news is that teachers and educators already have existing tools and strategies that could help them check essays. However, as I would soon discover, the problem of AI fakery spans beyond the world of education – and technology alone won't be enough to respond to this change. So, how might we spot the AI cheaters? Could there be cues and tells? Fortunately, new tools are emerging. As a mother to a young eight-year-old child with a whole lot of educational journey still before her, seeing AI used by a school-child caused me great concern about the integrity and value of the learning process in the future. Staring at the fake student essay before me, I couldn't help but worry. What struck me was the possibility that the intentional use of AI could be more widespread than I had realised. Of course, students trying to cheat isn't anything new. Yet here I was, caught by surprise because a student thought it would be acceptable to submit an AI-drafted entry for a writing competition. I had known for some time that AI-written content was causing serious challenges to many industries, including my own profession of journalism. Four separate AI detection softwares all had one clear message: this is an AI cheater. So then I ran it through yet another software called Winston AI. A third confirmed the first two, but was slightly lower in its scoring: 89% AI. I needed to be sure, so I ran it through another tool: Sapling, which identified 96.1% non-human text. Within seconds, Copyleaks displayed the result on my screen and it was deeply disappointing: 95.9% of the text was likely AI-generated. I ran the essay through AI detection software. I was judging a science-writing competition for 14-16 year-olds, but in this particular essay, there was a sophistication in the language that seemed unlikely from a teenager. As I read on, however, my alarm bells started to ring. I don't know what exactly struck me about these two words, but they caused me to pause for a moment.
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