What is AI Detection?
Writable's AI Detection (powered by Copyleaks) can be used by teachers to check for AI use. This includes AI-generated writing.
To best assess writing authenticity, we recommend using Authorship Scores and Draft History with the AI Detection report to determine the likelihood of whether a student used AI to write a submission.
Accessing the Report
Knowing whether a submission was written by students or generated by AI is important for ensuring academic integrity. Our AI detector is trained to recognize human writing patterns and flags text as potential AI when it detects deviations from these patterns.
Log into Writable and click an assignment.
Click on a class section to open the Assignment Dashboard.
Click the "Students" view.
In the “AI Detection” column you will see a green document icon or a blue document icon.
A green icon indicates that AI detection has run but no AI was detected or it could mean that there is not sufficient student writing for AI use to be evaluated. Roll over the icon to see which of these situations applies.
A blue icon indicates that some AI use is suspected and there is a report available.
Click on a blue icon to open the report. (Green icons will not open a report)
In the report, click on a darker highlighted phrase to show more detail, including the number of times a phrase was found in AI-generated text compared to human text. This ratio changes depending on the frequency of the phrase.
The Copyleaks dataset includes millions of AI-generated documents and human-written content. You can learn more about their testing methodology here.
Note! Copyleaks works to minimize false positives through rigorous testing and ongoing model improvements, but they may still occur:
Writing Assistants: Features like Grammarly's genAI-driven content rewriting can cause text to be flagged as AI. Small adjustments for spelling and grammar typically do not trigger AI detection.
AI Humanizers: AI detection is trained on content altered by AI humanizers but is being continuously improved to ensure accuracy.