AI checker provides insight into writing as the learning process evolves
Turnitin’s AI content checker helps educators, publishers, and researchers identify when an AI writing tool such as ChatGPT or text spinners may have been used in students’ submissions.
Over the years, technology has supported and tested academic integrity. Today, educators and students face a new frontier with AI-generated text and ChatGPT.
We believe that AI models can be positive forces that, when used responsibly, can support and enhance the learning process. We also believe that equitable access to AI tools is vital. We’re working with educators and students to develop technology that can support and enhance the learning process. However, it’s important to acknowledge new challenges alongside the opportunities.
We recognize that educators need to know when and where students have likely used AI writing tools. That’s why we now offer an AI content detector and more capabilities for educators in our products.
Gain valuable insights into student submissions
Our AI checker provides valuable insights on how much of a student’s submission is authentic, human-written content versus likely AI-generated from ChatGPT or likely AI-generated and likely AI-paraphrased.
Detect AI content with powerful reporting
Reporting identifies likely AI-written content or likely AI-paraphrased text and provides information educators need to determine their next course of action. We’ve designed our AI essay checker with educators, for educators.
Check student essays as you do today
Our AI essay detector complements our similarity checking workflow and is integrated with your LMS, providing a seamless, familiar experience.
Our AI content detection capability, which is available with Originality, helps educators detect likely AI-generated content in student work while also safeguarding students’ interests.
Welcome to the Turnitin AI Innovation Lab, a hub for new and upcoming product developments in the area of AI writing. You can follow our progress on detection initiatives for AI-written content, ChatGPT, and AI paraphrasing.
Understanding the false positive rate in our AI sentence detection capabilities
We’d like to share more insight into our false positive rate and tips on using our AI detection tool and data-driven metrics.
Helping solve the AI writing puzzle — one piece at a time
AI-generated text has transformed every aspect of our lives, including the classroom. However, detecting likely AI-generated content in students’ submissions is just one piece in the broader, complex, ever-evolving AI writing puzzle.
Check out the links below if you’re interested in the additional research we performed against English Language Learners and what an independent research study has revealed about Turnitin's AI-writing detection capabilities.
In response to customer feedback and papers claiming that AI detector tools are biased against writers whose first language is not English, we expanded our false positive evaluation to include writing samples of English Language Learners (ELL). We tested another nearly 2,000 writing samples of ELL writers.
We found that in documents meeting the 300-word count requirement, ELL writers received a 0.014 false positive rate, and native English writers received a 0.013.
This means that there is no statistically significant bias against non-native English speakers.
Two of the 16 detectors, Turnitin and Copyleaks, correctly identified the AI- or human-generated status of all 126 documents, with no incorrect or uncertain responses.
Three AI text detectors — Turnitin, Originality, and Copyleaks — have very high accuracy with all three sets of documents examined for this study: GPT-3.5 papers, GPT-4 papers, and human-generated papers.
Of the top three detectors identified in this investigation, Turnitin “achieved very high accuracy” in all five previous evaluations. Copyleaks, included in four earlier analyses, performed well in three of them.
Teaching in the age of AI writing
As AI text generators like ChatGPT quickly evolve, so will educator resources. Curated and created by our team of veteran educators, our resources help educators meet these new challenges. They’re built for professional learning and outline steps educators can take immediately to guide students in maintaining academic integrity when faced with AI writing tools.
Written by experts in the field, educators, and Turnitin professionals, our blog offers resources and thought leadership in support of students, instructors, and administrators. Dive into articles on a variety of important topics, including academic integrity, assessment, and instruction in a world with machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence.
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Cheat GPT? Turnitin CEO Chris Caren weighs in on combating A.I. plagiarism | CNBC Squawk Box
Since the inception of AI-generated writing, educators and institutions are learning how to navigate it in the classroom. Turnitin’s CEO Chris Caren joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss how it is being used in the classroom and how educators can identify AI writing in student submissions.
Some U.S. schools banning AI technology while others embrace it | NBC Nightly News
ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence program, can write college-level essays in seconds. While some school districts are banning it due to cheating concerns, NBC News’ Jacob Ward has details on why some teachers are embracing the technology.
Testing Turnitin’s New AI Detector: How Accurate Is It?
BestColleges
Artificial intelligence, it seems, is taking over the world. At least that's what alarmists would have you believe. The line between fact and fiction continues to blur, and recognizing what is real versus what some bot concocted grows increasingly difficult with each passing week.
Chat with Annie Chechitelli, Chief Product Officer at Turnitin
ThriveinEDU Podcast
On this episode of the ThriveinEDU podcast, host Rachelle Dené Poth speaks with Turnitin’s Chief Product Officer Annie Chechitelli about her role in the organization, her experience as a parent with school-age children learning to navigate AI writing, and the future of education and original thought.
Happy anniversary ChatGPT: How has generative AI impacted K12 education?
District Administration
Following the one year anniversary of the public launch of ChatGPT, Chief Product Officer Annie Chechitelli sits down with the publication to discuss Turnitin’s AI writing detection feature and what the educational community has learned.
