Anti-plagiarism tool Turntin tries to find AI writing by students – with mixed grades
Academic plagiarism-detecting software vendor Turnitin demoed an AI-writing detection tool on Tuesday, with a claim of 98 percent accuracy at spotting machine-generated cheating., however, found its performance lacking. Turnitin was good at detecting AI-generated text when the whole input had been created by ChatGPT, but struggled with a mixture between human and machine-written sentences. It also incorrectly flagged parts of an essay written by a student as AI-generated.
Teachers are grappling with the trend of students turning to tools like ChatGPT to write essays and complete homework, and academic institutions are struggling to enforce policies regulating the use of AI-writing software. Turnitin, however, claims the features now integrated into its existing anti-plagiarism products can detect AI-generated text with"98 percent confidence" – but has failed to provide any evidence of this. Given a claimed 2.1 million US educators use the code, some sources should surely be cited – as any teacher will tell you.
"Turnitin's technology has high accuracy and low false positive rates when detecting AI-generated text in student writing," Turnitin's chief product officer, Annie Chechitelli,
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