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Using Paperpal's AI Detector to Identify AI Written Sentences

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Can AI Detectors improve Academic Writing?

Dear Scholar,

Almost everyone I speak to is using AI for academic writing. Some more, some less. To balance AI writing with understanding, I have developed the atomic sentence method and thought hard about the ethical implications. But after a few AI-enhanced writing iterations, it is hard to keep track of how much AI you actually used.

This is where AI detectors come in. These tools can help you gauge whether your writing relies too heavily on AI (and might be flagged by journals). They act as guardrails for ethical and responsible use of AI in writing. This week's article is on using Paperpal's newest AI detector to improve writing.

In this post, we run a few experiments: uploading purely AI-generated content, a paper of mine (generated using the atomic sentence method from the lit review course), and a pre-AI-era paper. While the Paperpal AI detector is not perfect, it does give you a clear trend of how much AI was used, and more importantly, which are the exact sentences that need improvement.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend,

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Ilya Shabanov, The Effortless Academic​

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