Will UCAS use GPT Zero for PS

Do you guys think UCAS will use an AI detection tool to see if people have "plagiarised" using chatgpt or other AI?

Yes?? ChatGPT can use AI detection to see if it wrote it and you're asking if UCAS which has one of the most sophisticated anti-plagarism software won't?

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Enzic

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Original post by toothysmile

Yes?? ChatGPT can use AI detection to see if it wrote it and you're asking if UCAS which has one of the most sophisticated anti-plagarism software won't?

But the issue is AI detection is highly inaccurate, a paragraph that u wrote on your own will come back with a 50% probability that it has been written by AI.

How can they fairly say who used it and who didn't, you could simply just write like a robot.

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toothysmile

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Original post by Enzic

But the issue is AI detection is highly inaccurate, a paragraph that u wrote on your own will come back with a 50% probability that it has been written by AI.

How can they fairly say who used it and who didn't, you could simply just write like a robot.

Trust me. Or not, either way I highkey don't care. I'm not helping someone who cheats writing their personal statement - it's literally 4000 characters about a subject that you like enough to spend the next 3-5 years studying... Yes it's hard to write but it's not impossible... If not then feel free to plagarise away its your ucas application to mess up... But karma will catch up once your application is flagged by UCAS as written by ChatGPT as it will be flagged 100% written by AI and your application entirely gets dismissed...

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toothysmile

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Also the likelihood of someone writing with the same style as a robot is extremely unlikely... Like so unlikely it won't happen...
Also it usually comes back with 20-30% plagarised/AI report however this is to be expected as people will use stock phrases, synonyms and the AI plagariser can check which parts of your ps has come from which sources which they can cross reference. If it is 50% then it highly likely is plagarised unless you got highly unlikely...

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Enzic

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Original post by toothysmile

Trust me. Or not, either way I highkey don't care. I'm not helping someone who cheats writing their personal statement - it's literally 4000 characters about a subject that you like enough to spend the next 3-5 years studying... Yes it's hard to write but it's not impossible... If not then feel free to plagarise away its your ucas application to mess up... But karma will catch up once your application is flagged by UCAS as written by ChatGPT as it will be flagged 100% written by AI and your application entirely gets dismissed...

It ain’t ab me doing it never said I used ai, I’ve ran my brothers PS and it came back as 22% AI, he wrote back in 2019..

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toothysmile

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Original post by Enzic

It ain’t ab me doing it never said I used ai, I’ve ran my brothers PS and it came back as 22% AI, he wrote back in 2019..

than that's fine? he's already done it but it's suspicious you're asking about using chatgpt to write ps when everyone's writing their ps for ucas deadlines...

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DR_C

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Original post by Enzic

It ain’t ab me doing it never said I used ai, I’ve ran my brothers PS and it came back as 22% AI, he wrote back in 2019..

They won't use GPTZero because it is well-documented to be inaccurate and have a high false positive rate. Universities use specialist (and expensive) tools, e.g. Turnitin AI-detector, which has a very low false positive rate and is the most accurate detector in the sector for academic type work (see e.g. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2306/2306.15666.pdf). Your brother's statement wouldn't be flagged by it, nor would anything that wasn't written by AI so you don't need to worry.

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DR_C

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Original post by Enzic

But the issue is AI detection is highly inaccurate, a paragraph that u wrote on your own will come back with a 50% probability that it has been written by AI.

How can they fairly say who used it and who didn't, you could simply just write like a robot.

No... A 50% chance of AI use means a 50% chance of no AI use, so wouldn't be enough to cast suspicion on you, since it is just as likely that you didn't use AI (its a 50/50). More importantly, the free AI detectors like GPTZero are very inaccurate and have a high false positive rate. That's why universities don't use GPTZero etc., we use specialist tools, e.g. Turnitin's AI-detector, which has a very low false positive rate and is the most accurate detector in the sector according to independent studies (see e.g. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2306/2306.15666.pdf). If you didn't use AI to write it you won't be flagged. I don't know if UCAS are using this tool, but if they are using a detector it will be this one, so you don't need to worry about being flagged for AI if you wrote it yourself.

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