My American university recently instituted that using AI to write papers will result in academic misconduct. However, I have been using Grammarly before they included AI (and no, I do not use Grammarly Go as I do not pay for it). On top of that, I am writing a paper for my class, and every time I put my paper through the AI detector, it says, "AI detected." What should I do?

AI generated content is forbidden on this sub, so I was wondering if Grammarly is considered as an AI. English isn't my first language, so to make my texts more readable I use Grammarly to reformulate my first draft, but all the ideas are mine and I don't generate anything else with the algorithm. Is it ok to post rewrited texts with original ideas, or is it forbidden ?

P.S : this text hasn't been written with Grammarly :)

So, the new and "wonderful" relationship that WGU has with Grammarly is really rubbing me the wrong way and I wanted to check in with the sub to see what your thoughts are.

As a short introduction, I have a mildly conversational tone to my writing style although I remain professional and academically appropriate in all of my papers. In the past I have written several substantial research papers and received praise from colleagues for how well communicated the ideas therein are.

Which leads me to the disaster that is Grammarly. When the relationship was announced recently, I reluctantly installed Grammarly hoping that it would help me improve my skills and really take my writing to the next level. What I have discovered is quite the opposite; it wants to dumb down my writing and make it as dry, formal, and uninteresting as possible. What was once a very relatable, interesting, and human-readable piece, becomes drier than last year's Christmas fruitcake shoved to the back of the pantry.

So, the impetus for writing this post is that I always run my writing through a plagiarism checker or three, just to make sure that nothing gets flagged and that I didn't fail to insert a reference or give credit to some idea or concept that I might have paraphrased. These checkers are now also including tools that check for "AI-generated content" ...

I'm working on a PA for a particular class, and I, of course, want to get it returned as "competent" on the first attempt, so I took each suggestion that Grammarly made, and lo and behold, when I run the paper, it comes back as "73% AI generated content" - what in the actual f? I literally wrote all of this from scratch.

As I tend to write in a stream-of-consciousness fashion and go back and correct / edit typos and spelling mistakes after, I was able to "undo" all the edits to this piece and run it without the Grammarly "suggestions" and sure enough, - 0% AI content detected - "human written" - Because it IS!

Now I'm paranoid that my writing is going to be flagged by evaluators as "AI generated" due to Grammarly being a dumb pedantic AI, making us all into the equivalent of GPT. This is soooo *!#$*^$ frustrating!

How does everyone feel about this? Has anyone else run across this same problem? Has anyone had a PA rejected for "AI content" when it wasn't? How would you even prove that?

P.S. Grammarly wants me to make 21 changes to THIS POST because it is not "correct" ... I've basically had it, felt cute, might uninstall.