I'm not kidding I've been thinking about writing a similar post the last few hours. I had ChatGPT provide me with an outline to structure my essay based on key points I wanted to focus on. Then I wrote the paper myself. Every other AI detector is reporting back 100% human text. For some odd reason, quillbot is telling me anywhere from 33-60% in random sections I wrote on my own. Feel like I never should have checked anyways and was just being paranoid. Now I'm worried I'm totally screwed. Answer from Deleted User on reddit.com
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reddit.com › r/chatgpt › quillbot ai detector
r/ChatGPT on Reddit: Quillbot ai detector
May 7, 2025 -

I have two essays due and I was wondering if anyone else has had similar issues with quillbot

Since it’s an important essay I’m checking if it’s ai generated but I do this in chunks of 200 words because if I put in the whole paragraph it always says no ai detected

Should I trust it when I put it in full paragraph or in parts ?

I try to change the bits marked by ai but sometimes it just says that my edits make the rest of it sound like ai instead of just saying no ai was used n getting worried cus I made a small change n it went from 20% to 60% n I was like wtf 😭😭

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reddit.com › r/uniuk › does using quillbot make your work detectable for ai or plagiarism?
r/UniUK on Reddit: Does using Quillbot make your work detectable for AI or plagiarism?
June 6, 2024 -

I’m not talking about the paraphrasing tool, rather the free AI detector, and using Grammarly to detect plagiarism. I don’t have access to turnitin (only the staff do I think?) so I can’t actually see how much work is plagiarised or not, but lecturers have said that student’s putting in their own work into plagiarism detectors can get flagged on turnitin.

I just wanna know if that’s a myth or if it’s actually true

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reddit.com › r/umgc › ai detector accuracy
r/UMGC on Reddit: AI Detector accuracy
August 17, 2024 -

I am at a loss here. For background, I am not an English native speaker. Writing in English has always been a bit awkward for me. Grammarly and Quillbot have been a blessing.

The issue I am having is this. I am writing an analysis for my first assignment. I wrote the whole thing. I obviously paraphrased from the source material. I got curious and put it through Quillbot's AI detector. Imagine my surprise when it said that it is 100% AI generated. Once I put it through Quillbot paraphraser, it lowered it to 58% AI generated.

I don't know what to do here. Beyond lowering my own standards of grammar, which I am not going to do, I am afraid that a professor might think I am cheating.

Is there anybody else having this issue or experienced this? Am I overthinking this?

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reddit.com › r/copywriting › ai detection tools are driving me nuts
r/copywriting on Reddit: AI DETECTION TOOLS ARE DRIVING ME NUTS
July 17, 2024 -

I just started a new job. During. interview, they mentioned that I needed to pass my work through AI detector tools. Okay, no big deal, right? Since Im already writing everything myself, it shouldnt be too much of a problem.

Hoo boy was I wrong!

Day 1, wrote my copy, passed it through zeroGPT, 30% AI content. Okay, I will rewrite a few sentences, no problem. Content sails through, everybody's happy.

Day 2, they liked my writing on day 1, so I was given more work. They were short blogs, around 450 words each; completed all of it, went to check it through the damn AI detector, BOOM. 80% Ai. 100% AI. 69 FUCKING PERCENT AI!

What is the damn detector even going to detect when I have typed every single word, why my own two hands!?!??! The fuck is going on? I spent 2 hours trying to 'humanize' my ALREADY HUMAN work to appease AI fucking Christ.

Oh and I put it through multiple detectors, Copyleaks, Quillbot, ChatGPTs own AI detector. The fun part is that each detector has its own damn opinion of how much of my content is AI written. One says 69%, other says 50, and yet another says 12.

I swear AI is going to be the end of humanity.

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reddit.com › r/ibo › does turnitin detect quillbot or chat open ai?
r/IBO on Reddit: Does turnitin detect quillbot or chat open ai?
December 23, 2022 - I am I huge trouble for this because ... I used quillbot, otherwise they would have thought that I plagiarised someone else's work ... AI writing tools help out a ton for basic assignments and the like (when you ask the right questions of course). I don’t really know how Turnitin works so please take caution with the usage of ChatGPT. As far as I know, almost all freely available detectors suck and changing ...
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reddit.com › r/ibo › help with turnitin quillbot
r/IBO on Reddit: HELP with turnitin quillbot
April 18, 2023 -

I did not use chatgpt at all but used A LOT OF quillbot. It does not show any similarity index on my turnitin but as far as I know only educators can see if and how much AI is used. I know chatgpt can be detected but can quillbot be detected too???

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reddit.com › r/uniuk › does using uploading content to quillbot's ai detector, indexes the content, resulting in consequent plagarism?
r/UniUK on Reddit: Does using Uploading content to Quillbot's AI Detector, indexes the content, resulting in consequent plagarism?
April 10, 2025 -

I wrote an assignment paper on my own but used Grammarly's suggestions and GenAI tool, and ChatGPT to frame sentences properly. Then, I used Quillbot's AI detector tool to see if there were excessive traces of AI in certain parts of my paper. My University doesn't have any problem in using AI for writing papers and I have taken care of citing the sources properly. My concern is, however, does uploading my work to Quillbot's AI Detector get it indexed somewhere on the internet, which may consequently result in plagiarism? Does anyone have an idea about this?

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reddit.com › r/uwa › pretty scared and paranoid about getting caught in the false positives of ai detection
r/uwa on Reddit: Pretty scared and paranoid about getting caught in the false positives of AI detection
May 12, 2024 -

Basically the title.

I'm an international student and an ESL speaker - although have a very good grip in English. In one of my essays, even though I wrote it completely by myself, I rephrased some part of my two-thousand word essay through Quillbot Premium because I wasn't satisfied on how I sounded.

Later after submission, I have sent it to a friend who's a son of an academic back in my home country, so he has a Turnitin AI-check subscription at his disposal.

Surprisingly, even though I wrote the entire thing and polished it with Quillbot, I was stunned to see that I had a 77-91% AI-detection three different times. I'm very practically experienced in the unit I was doing (very rare for anyone in my class/course) so I was confident enough on my material, but still the results were shocking.

I'm pretty sure it has to be a case of false positives, but I'm afraid that the tutor might misunderstand or maybe will not be able to comprehend the possibilities of a false positive report.

What could possibly be the worst possible repercussion? I'm shaking and it has been 4 days since my submission.

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reddit.com › r/askprofessors › will turnitin ai detection detect quillbot if i used it on all of my assignments?
r/AskProfessors on Reddit: Will Turnitin AI detection Detect Quillbot if I Used it on All of my Assignments?
May 13, 2024 -

I have multiple learning difficulties and I am studying at a UK university as an international student, given the background I found struggles with writing High quality papers and using correct terminology to paraphrase. I have been using Quillbot for a few years (Before it became "cool"). I would usually paraphrase a few sentences and then manually choose words I deemed to be better fitting, of Course providing proper referencing when inserting the text into my document. This way I could find better words to use and get more consistent text without using same words over and over to describe certain things. I had never had issues with it and I have even received compliments from lecturers on my writing style.

With recent hike in AI academic misconduct our university has introduced strict policies that ban the use of AI tools. However when I spoke to Students Union employee about this, I was told that Turnitin is also using old submissions to flag inconsistencies in writing styles. With that being said I feel trapped between Using Quillbot the way I did for all my assignments and risk AI detection or Use dictionaries to find synonyms to use, but risk being flagged for inconsistent writing style.

I used AI Detectors to check if my old submissions would be flagged and certain sections were detected as AI written. I am not sure what to do and I am not even sure who I should talk to at university without being considered as cheater.

I will be thankful for any advice!

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reddit.com › r/statementofpurpose › ai detection 💀
AI detection 💀 : r/StatementOfPurpose
January 28, 2024 - Quillbot is so bad, probably the most inconsistent of all the ai detectors I've used. I've gotten some good results with AIDetectPlus. They have 1000 or so words free.
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reddit.com › r/chatgpt › help. is all my work lost? ai detector shows 100%
r/ChatGPT on Reddit: HELP. Is all my work lost? AI Detector shows 100%
April 17, 2024 -

Hello everyone,

I don't know if it's my ADHD and because i have been hyperfocused on this problem since this morning, but I'm feeling sick to my stomach. Let me give you some context. I've been working on my thesis in a social science field for 7 months. My topic is super niche, and the research was exhausting with very few sources available. I did extensive research and included significant original research.

Here's the problem: I come from a non-academic household, and ChatGPT has been incredibly helpful in addressing my uncertainties. My work involved asking ChatGPT for ideas on how to proceed with my analysis, and if I liked a suggestion, I incorporated it. I often wrote my thoughts or sentences into ChatGPT and had it help me refine or clarify them. I rarely accepted suggestions directly without further commenting and critically questioning them, maintaining a "dialogue" with ChatGPT throughout.

Today, for some reason, I decided to check my work with AI detectors by sending in some paragraphs. Most detectors indicated a 20% to 50% chance that the text might be AI-generated, which didn't worry me much. But then I tried Quillbot, and it flagged many parts of my text with a 100% chance of being AI-generated. I'm at my wit's end. No matter what I change, the result is always the same: 100%. When I insert other academic texts, it shows 0%, but with my thesis, it’s 100% every time. It’s driving me crazy.

I've tried paraphrasing myself and using humanizer AIs, but the result is always the same: 100% likely AI-generated text. I'm at the end of my rope. Are over 6 months of work down the drain? Is there any way out of this? I've even started reading research papers on how to evade AI detection, but Quillbot always marks my text as 100% AI-generated. Should I just ignore this program?

I know there have been many posts here saying these detectors are unreliable, but the result makes me very nervous, and essentially it is true that the text was written with the help of AI. Please be kind, I'm too exhausted for criticism. I need to know how i can recover from this and what are my options to procceed.. any advice is deeply appreciated.

Thank you

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You are definitely overthinking. AI detector is fundamentally bullshit because AI learns from actual human language. Just focus on building value, and use AI as a tool to build your own point of view. If someone rejects your work saying its AI made, state that while AI was used, the interaction between your own intellect and the AI was crucial for the high quality of the end result. If still rejected, ask for factual proof that the text was partially or totally generated by AI (which is impossible), also, you can always sue. I think whoever invalidates an idea based on suspicion of AI use is profoundly lacking understanding of the technology and it’s potentials.
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This is something I start to fear about out society regarding AI. I start feeling a persecution against the use of AI as if it was cheating or something highly immoral. An example is instagram that is making mandatory to flag if q given content is created with AI and displays it clearly. Even if the user don’t flag it, they will eventually detect and flag if themselves. I see on photography communities, photos that have been edited with the hell of AI tools becoming absolutely discredited. Wattpad, a platform for book publishing is banning books that are detected as containing any AI generated content. By any, I mean even the cover image or any illustration. This happens despite the focus of the platform being the writing and the images being only complementary!! Come on, AI is a tool we are supposed to help us enrich our work. It someone uses it to enhance a phrase, to explore ideas, what’s wrong?! If someone just let the AI do all the work by himself will naturally end up having it full of incoherences and the result will be very poor. At least for now. There is no need for verification tools, if the outcome of using AI has good quality and is accurate it only means the author used it correctly and had the knowledge needed to validate all the information. Let’s stop being picky about the use of AI
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Quillbot...why do you? : r/copywriting
August 31, 2024 - Deliver lots of FREE value. If you're self-promoting or linking to a resource that requires signup or payment, please disclose it or your post will be removed. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. ... I used Claude AI to paraphrase then paraphrase again by too. Both were flagged as AI-generated and refined by Quillbot.
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reddit.com › r/statementofpurpose › sop ai detection
r/StatementOfPurpose on Reddit: SOP AI detection
October 29, 2024 -

Hi all, I just finished writing my SOP and ran a quillbot AI detection test. Turns out its 80% AI. I wanted to check if universities use tools like these to filter out SOPs, or if they usually know which one is AI-written. With application deadlines approaching within a month and a half, I want to give myself enough time to rectify my SOP.

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reddit.com › r/chatgpt › my essay being flagged as ai when it is 100% human written
r/ChatGPT on Reddit: My essay being flagged as AI when it is 100% human written
May 5, 2024 -

I wrote an essay about AI replacing jobs. I'm not the brightest guy ever and i'm average compared to my classmates but I barely use AI on any school work.

I put the essay in quillbot's AI detector, and oh man it's 42% AI. I've never even opened my ChatGPT app the whole day, nor did I open any type of AI writing website.

Now my teacher is calling me out for supposedly using AI on my work. I even said to him to try and detect my AI work on other websites and would you look at that, almost all of them showed near 0% AI except one that showed 60%

Honestly, I hate when this happens. Are there some things I should do to clear "AI" on my works? I don't use AI detector on my work before passing them because I am 100% certain that it is not and I definitely wrote it without ever using any type of AI.

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Turnitin explicitly advises not to use its tool against students, stating that it is not reliable enough: https://help.turnitin.com/ai-writing-detection.htm “Our AI writing detection model may not always be accurate (it may misidentify both human and AI-generated text) so it should not be used as the sole basis for adverse actions against a student. It takes further scrutiny and human judgment in conjunction with an organization's application of its specific academic policies to determine whether any academic misconduct has occurred.” Here’s a warning specifically from OpenAI: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8313351-how-can-educators-respond-to-students-presenting-ai-generated-content-as-their-own This paper references literally hundreds of studies 100% of which concluded that AI text detection is not accurate: A Survey on LLM-Generated Text Detection: Necessity, Methods, and Future Directions https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14724 And here are statements from various major American universities on why they won't support or allow the use of any of these "detector" tools for academic integrity: MIT – AI Detectors Don’t Work. Here’s What to do Instead https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/teach/ai-detectors-dont-work/ Syracuse – Detecting AI Created Content https://answers.syr.edu/display/blackboard01/Detecting+AI+Created+Content UC Berkley – Availability of Turnitin Artificial Intelligence Detection https://rtl.berkeley.edu/news/availability-turnitin-artificial-intelligence-detection UCF - Faculty Center - Artificial Intelligence https://fctl.ucf.edu/technology/artificial-intelligence/ Colorado State - Why you can’t find Turnitin’s AI Writing Detection tool https://tilt.colostate.edu/why-you-cant-find-turnitins-ai-writing-detection-tool/ Missouri – Detecting Artificial Intelligence (AI) Plagiarism https://teachingtools.umsystem.edu/support/solutions/articles/11000119557-detecting-artificial-intelligence-ai-plagiarism Northwestern – Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Courses https://ai.northwestern.edu/education/use-of-generative-artificial-intelligence-in-courses.html SMU – Changes to Turnitin AI Detection Tool at SMU https://blog.smu.edu/itconnect/2023/12/13/discontinue-turnitin-ai-detection-tool/ Vanderbilt – Guidance on AI Detection and Why We’re Disabling Turnitin’s AI Detector https://www.vanderbilt.edu/brightspace/2023/08/16/guidance-on-ai-detection-and-why-were-disabling-turnitins-ai-detector/ Yale – AI Guidance for Teachers https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/AIguidance Alabama - Turnitin AI writing detection unavailable https://cit.ua.edu/known-issue-turnitin-ai-writing-detection-unavailable/ The MIT and Syracuse statements in particular contain extensive references to supporting research. And of course the most famous examples for false positives: Both the U.S. Constitution and the Old Testament were “detected” as 100% AI generated. Using these unreliable tools to fail students is highly unethical. (Credit where credit is due: I gathered these sources from various comments on Reddit. Thank you u/Calliophage , u/froo , u/luc1d_13 and u/Open_Channel_8626 for making the original comments and sharing your insights.)
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Let’s see the essay in question. And everyone, just write your damn essays in Google Docs and be done with this.