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Summary

Some students might use ChatGPT or other artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate writing assignments. Beginning April 4, 2023 Turnitin will modify its similarity report to highlight text that may have been generated by AI.

Instructions

  1. To use Turnitin’s AI detection feature, simply follow your usual similarity checking workflow.

  2. Once the submission is processed, click on the similarity report.

    1. The AI score is not embedded directly in the Canvas user interface, so you will need to view the similarity report to see the AI score and to access the AI report.

  3. The AI indicator is linked to the AI report.

    1. The AI report highlights the text segments that the Turnitin model predicts were written by AI.

Considerations

  1. The AI indicator and report is visible only to instructors and admins.

  2. Turnitin has created an expanded FAQ related to AI detection; if your question isn’t answered in this document, please submit a help desk ticket.

  3. Submissions made before April 4, 2023 will need to be re-submitted if you wish to check for possible AI-generated text in those submissions.

  4. Turnitin’s current detector is trained for long-form English content and can detect GPT3/3.5 and ChatGPT signatures.

  5. The AI detector’s false positive rate (incorrectly flagging human-written text as AI-generated) is claimed to be less than 1%, but it isn't zero percent. To help navigate conversations around false positives, in addition to the response provided in the expanded FAQ document liked above, please use these resources:

    1. Understanding false positives within our AI writing detection capabilities

    2. How to prepare for and discuss the possibility of false positives

    3. AI conversations: Handling false positives for students

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