If plagiarism checks were common in the last decade of academics, AI-generated content checks will dominate this decade.
If plagiarism checks were common in the last decade of academics, AI-generated content checks will dominate this decade and are also being used to check essays written for purposes of securing admissions or even job applications.Colleges are now equipped with tools that claim to detect if the content submitted by a student. While the tools are also in the works, they claim an accuracy of 99 percent, which Stanford researchers suggest is "misleading".
James Zou, an assistant professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, tested 91 essays against seven of the most popular tools used in colleges these days. All of these essays were written by non-native English language speakers and were written for the Test of English as a Foreign Language , a widely recognized English language proficiency test.
Since non-native speakers of the language are more likely to use common words in their writing and have a more familiar pattern, the content they generate is more likely to be flagged as bot-generated.
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