AI Detection

Hi, this is my first time using this website so sorry if it's in the wrong place, and I know this is probably a silly concern but I'm just worried :frown:

I'm currently writing my UCAS personal statement and have essentially completed it, and out of curiosity I happened to paste it into a few AI detection websites. A couple said completely human-written, one said 8% AI, and a couple said 100% AI. I haven't used AI at all in my personal statement!! :frown:

I understand that these AI detectors probably aren't the most reliable, but is there any chance I could be flagged for AI when I submit my application, despite not actually using any AI?

Reply 1

subhan29

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Original post by fizzyflash

Hi, this is my first time using this website so sorry if it's in the wrong place, and I know this is probably a silly concern but I'm just worried :frown:

I'm currently writing my UCAS personal statement and have essentially completed it, and out of curiosity I happened to paste it into a few AI detection websites. A couple said completely human-written, one said 8% AI, and a couple said 100% AI. I haven't used AI at all in my personal statement!! :frown:

I understand that these AI detectors probably aren't the most reliable, but is there any chance I could be flagged for AI when I submit my application, despite not actually using any AI?

This is so funny, purely because I was in your situation like a month ago. Don’t worry at all about the AI detection, because mine kept coming through as having AI in it, but I later realised that I, like many others, was merely writing in a manner similar to the format of an AI generated response. Try putting it back into the detectors after completing your PS (if you haven’t already) but if it still detects AI generated content, not to worry. The universities will be able to differentiate between a genuine written PS that flows throughout and the result of a prompt from an AI, and just to give you that extra reassurance I received 3 offers within the first 5 days of sending my UCAS application, so think positive!

Reply 2

fizzyflash

OP

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Original post by subhan29

This is so funny, purely because I was in your situation like a month ago. Don’t worry at all about the AI detection, because mine kept coming through as having AI in it, but I later realised that I, like many others, was merely writing in a manner similar to the format of an AI generated response. Try putting it back into the detectors after completing your PS (if you haven’t already) but if it still detects AI generated content, not to worry. The universities will be able to differentiate between a genuine written PS that flows throughout and the result of a prompt from an AI, and just to give you that extra reassurance I received 3 offers within the first 5 days of sending my UCAS application, so think positive!

Thanks so much for the reassurance :smile:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has worried about this haha. I need to write a conclusion, but once I'm finished I'll try putting it in the detector again. And well done on getting your offers, that's really amazing!

Reply 3

Admit-One

Universities Forum Helper

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There's no point using these checkers if it is your own work. It will always return some match, because its data set is based on the work of other humans writing similar things to you.

Paraphrasing myself from elsewhere:

"Think of it this way, if I fed 10 million images of cars into a car image generator, I could look at the output and go "my god that looks 15% similar to my car!". Of course it is, it an average/amalgam of the data that went in. It is meaningless."

Reply 4

fleuxrshel

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Original post by subhan29

This is so funny, purely because I was in your situation like a month ago. Don’t worry at all about the AI detection, because mine kept coming through as having AI in it, but I later realised that I, like many others, was merely writing in a manner similar to the format of an AI generated response. Try putting it back into the detectors after completing your PS (if you haven’t already) but if it still detects AI generated content, not to worry. The universities will be able to differentiate between a genuine written PS that flows throughout and the result of a prompt from an AI, and just to give you that extra reassurance I received 3 offers within the first 5 days of sending my UCAS application, so think positive!