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Faculty Guide

Guide to effectively using library resources and services at HIU.

List of Current AI Checkers (2/25) - some are free to use

The University also uses TurnItIn. TurnItIn has a built in originality checker and an AI detector. As an instructor you need to enable those items in Canvas

A Website Devoted to AI Detectors

A curated list of AI detectors. Use the filters to search by content type (word, voice, image, etc.) or by cost (free, free trial, freemium, or paid).

You may detect it yourself.

Look for the following:

  • For AI generated text, things to look for:

  • Formulaic writing, like 5-paragraph and 7-paragraph essays, like what is taught in middle and high school
  • Too few citations for content of the essay and academic context
  • No connection to the course context / content (no textbook or lectures mentioned)
  • Lacking a personal connection or voice
  • Content is too academic - vocabulary, research, theories, language and sentence structure is too advanced for the course / student
  • Perfect grammar and spelling
  • No contractions
  • Sentences are all about the same length with little variation

  • All of that has to do with training of the AIs and maybe a little about the prompts being entered by the student.

     

    For AI generated images, things to look for:

  • Count the number of limbs and fingers (AIs occasionally add extras, especially if the body is in an odd position [not standing or sitting in a chair])
  • Hair looks like one thing and not a million individual strands (cartoonish)
  • Blurry in places
  • Everything is equally in-focus
  • Flawless skin (no blemishes or freckles) and teeth - more than airbrushing in magazines
  • Clothing not physically correct (seams, buttons, zippers) or it just doesn't sit on a body correctly
  • Shadows don't all line up - looks like multiple sources of light in an image
  • Perfect sky / clouds, or moon is exaggerated

** Caution: There are now AIs that "humanize" an AI produced writing. The second AI changes the style, grammar, and such. It can change it enough that the writing is no longer boring and perfect, but almost human.

To watch for (possible false positives):

  • formulaic writing will be tagged as AI
  • English language learners will often be tagged because they are writing generic 5 paragraph essays AND using translation tools
  • use of a translation tool (Google Translate and such)
  • students that "correct" all their grammar and spelling "errors" with Word, Google Docs (with Duet), or Grammarly (perfect spelling and grammar are marks of AI)