I started recording writing my papers because of this fear. I had a lot of sources I cited for a paper and copy pasting in the APA 7 citations turned my grammarly AI detection up to 49%!! It is freaking me out. Usually after spelling and grammar check it's somewhere around 11%
I started noticing that spelling and grammar check in word or grammarly increases the AI detection score too. I have dyslexia, and even if I didn't, I've always been encouraged to use it and even get that in my assignment prompts and feedback from professors. Especially when it comes to APA compliance. It's so helpful to find accidental contractions or wrong verb tenses.
I've only used AI to help me search for scholarly sources, verify my outline template has everything the rubric asks for, and I always include the AI disclosure after my refernces. But I haven't used it to write my paper and don't see how I could since the paper is based on my research, opinion, and argument.
I've done the research. I've made the points. I've written the words, and I'm so scared of this accusation. How does TurnItIn detect this? I've noticed a score in the feedback.
Has anyone else encountered this or had to defend this?