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?

I wrote about 2300 words two days ago and pasted them from LibreOffice into Grammarly to check it for plagiarism and AI text out of curiosity. It was 0%.

Two days later (today) changing nothing, not even a comma, I pasted it again in Grammarly. Now it says 35% of my document contains patterns often found in AI generated text.

This is just for a story I am writing and I am finding it hilarious. I'm spending more time writing one paragraph at the time and see what Grammarly says for shits and giggles than focusing on my story. But I can only imagine the stress students feel when a teacher dumps their paper in an AI detectors, and most of their writing gets scrapped due to false detections.

Update, March 18, 2025: It is even worse now. The text I wrote six months ago that had 0% AI generated, is now flagged at 90%.

I've seen posts/comments that some people's essays failed the AI detection when they did not use any AI on assignments. How likely is this to happen?

It's one of my biggest fears for college (I start in Spring) and the only AI I use is Grammarly for general grammar mistakes and sometimes for "clarity" which edits some of my sentences for the "free premium suggestion."

Would this be a problem for college essays and assignments? I have not yet begun writing essay assignments but have used Grammarly for some of my scholarship essays, but none have had a problem with AI unless they say you can not use it. (In which case I don't use Grammarly)

Does Grammarly fall under that category? Should I be worried about failing assignments if I use it? Should I be worried about false detections even if I disable Grammarly for the assignment?

Please share your experience with Grammarly and assignments/essays. It would be greatly appreciated!

Hey guys, is Grammarly's AI detector accurate and reliable? I'm seeing results that suggest 40-50% of my content is AI-generated, even though I'm certain the actual AI-written portion is much lower. How trustworthy is this tool for detecting AI content in articles?

I have a final paper due on a few days. I used grammarly to check my grammar and shorten sentences. My uni uses Turnitin, so naturally I used a few different softwares for plagiarism checks just to be sure I didn't miss anything. My paper now shows as 70% AI?? Im so confused??

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 :)

Okay, I know AI detectors are bullshit. I'm not sure if anyone has advice for making my writing sound less like AI or if there is a software that lets you know why its coming up like this. When I read it, it sounds like AI because my writing in general is corny AF.

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.

Recently I have been accused of using Ai because the way I type in reddit is different from how I write my book, which I explained it is different because I don't put the same effort into writing a text on reddit then I do in my book.

Long story short the person put my first chapter into an Ai detector, and it came back as 70% Ai, which now I am confused because I 100% write my own story, I just use Grammarly to fix things like grammar etc, that I don't see when I go over it.

Like 5 Ai detectors flagged my essay up as like ~10-20% AI, but grammarly flagged it up as ~60%. I know that no AI detector is accurate but like holy 60% is a lot and kinda makes me think if I should submit my work or not. I have literally rewrote parts flagged as AI like 5 times by now and it still flags up, though only on grammarly.

Hello, I’m a student at college and currently in the first year of my degree. I utilize grammarly premium to help check my grammar mistakes and the “clarity function “ that helps provide better clarity on my work. I recently discovered that there was an AI that does essays for you and that Turnitin AI detects if an AI has written your assignment. Specifically some lecturers had advised us as students to use grammarly and some said that it was not allowed. I’m just wondering if the words rephrased by grammarly “clarity” function is considered cheating and would be detected ?

I am using grammarly to edit my chapters and I also use the “check for AI text and plagiarism” and keep running into small percentages of 5%-16% when i have not used AI in any form. Is this an error? Should I be worried?

I got a ‘waf’ for one of my subjects last Friday and emailed my subject coordinator for the reason. This was my first time knowing and receiving it. I received the reply back today that my final essay was detected by Turnitin AI detection with a potential issue, so it was sent to the academic integrity team. I was told that I should wait patiently as there is a high increase in the cases to be examined.

I did not use any AI to generate the content of my essay, but I do use Grammarly. I don’t have the premium version of it. I use Grammarly to check my grammar, find synonyms for vocabulary and have a habit of trying to paraphrase those sentences with yellow lines to achieve a higher score in it (those who use Grammarly may understand what I mean) (The score always give me a sense of confident). I have done this since I was in high school and right now I am in my second year.

Before the deadline of the essay, our subject coordinator made an announcement asking us not to use any AI tool to generate content for the essay, and the example given included Grammarly. I didn’t care much about it as I believed that she was referring to the premium version and I wouldn’t use Grammarly for generating essays. But right now I am starting to question it… Is the normal version of Grammarly classified as AI writing right now…?

I did research and wrote my essay for more than 10 days… I do have my web history to prove that I did my own research…

I believe the time of waiting will be really tough for students. I am curious about what and how the team is examining right now. Why don’t they just organize a meeting and ask us to explain our essay?

So I am getting ready to submit my first PA, all the other courses I have completed so far have ben OA's, and I decided to use the Education Grammarly account that they give us access to, this is a first for me as I have NEVER used any sort of AI or application to proof-read my papers, I guess im old-fashioned? Either way to get down to the point, I saw the "Check for AI text & plagiarism" option and decided to give it a shot...

Well its telling me 3% of my text matches external sources which I think is fair, but what I don't understand is it also says 13% text out of 2,629 words has patterns that resemble AI text. Is this a fair percentage to have and should I feel safe turning it in? I figured maybe some of the words I used were a bit too "sophisticated" so I used a thesaurus and tried to change them around with no prevail, so thought it would be a good idea to get others opinions on this or similar experiences?

NOTE: I do know that you can turn in your task without submitting it to get the similarity score and for this PA it can be no more than a combined 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual score which I don't really understand what that means? Like no more than 10% can match a single reference or someone else's paper?

A student turned in a document that looked really weird - like the assignment was to summarize a book chapter, but what they turned in was a book review. I checked the properties of the Word file, and under the "Custom" tab, there is a property listed with the name "GrammarlyDocumentId", along with a value, which is a string of numbers and letters. A look at their past submissions are showing the same thing.

I don't know Grammarly very well. My understanding was that this was a grammar checking tool. Students could upload a document, it would correct misspellings and whatever, and that was it. But when I upload a document to Grammarly, have it edit the document, and download the edited file, I see none of this GrammarlyDocumentId stuff, so I don't know where that came from. It sounds like it was a new Word document, created by Grammarly, and not an edited file.

Has anyone seen anything like this?

I am a second year college student taking a 300 level history class. I recently used grammarly premium to help on my paper like I always do. And by help I mean clicking on the recommended popups as I write. When I turned my paper in, Turnitin.com flagged my paper for 44% AI usage throughout the paper where I used grammarly. I talked to my professor and he is failing me for the assignment due to using AI. What is the best way to refute this and hopefully get a passing grade on this assignment?

I wrote an original paper and had 0% AI detection, but when I put the essay in Grammarly to proofread and provide feedback that I accept, it increased my AI to about 27%. Is this common for others?

My prof emailed me asked to speak with him after class. He asked if on one of the assignments I used any software like Grammarly (he listed another one but I forgot). I told him yes, I use Grammarly. He said it’s fine to use it to correct grammar but that Grammarly rewrites sentences and that wasn’t allowed. He was kinda vague about the whole thing and I didn’t know how to defend myself at the time. He said he would take a “few points” off, so I just went with it cause I’m not gonna waste my time arguing with him. He ended up grading it today and deducted TWENTY points and left a comment saying “20% deduction for improper use of generative AI”. I want to email him and ask whether there was a misunderstanding. Maybe he thought I was using Grammarly Pro/Premium, which I don’t have access to, in which you are able to generate text. UIC actually encourages the use of Grammarly through its education pilot program, and I know of many people in the same class who also use Grammarly (even Pro), so I just think this situation is unfair and I’m not sure what to include in my email to make him change his mind. I don’t want to have to go to the academic integrity office, I would hope he’s understanding and gives me the points back. Pls help 😭

Update; spoke with him today and showed him my doc history. He saw I wrote it all myself and gave me the credit back. But he was still insisting that he doesn’t want Grammarly to rewrite/rearrange my sentences because it’s not considered my words anymore. (I fully disagree, but I know debating him isn’t gonna change his mind). Going forward I’ll just manually edit what Grammarly underlines, including sentences 💀