How to Identify AI-Generated Content
AI-generated content is often uniform and factual.
You can often identify text written by AI because it won’t include personal opinions, is dry, lacks emotion, is written in a matter-of-fact tone, and tends to be a bit formal.
AI also utilizes the same common phrases over and over. Watch for sentences that begin and end the same way. You may also notice a lack of depth, perspective, critical interpretation, or complexity. Ultimately, AI-generated text fails to engage the reader on a deeper level.
Because AI-generated text tends to use distinctive statistical and stylistic patterns not always obvious to us, it can be detected, of course, by AI detection apps. These apps can be pretty accurate, but mistakes are inevitable.
Since AI is trained on regular articles written by average folks, some text written by a person may look as though it was generated by AI. That’s why you shouldn’t be too quick to claim that a paper was written by AI. Run multiple checks, look for patterns, and search online to identify phrases.
Free, fast, and reliable tools.
There are a number of online tools available that allow you to identify if text was generated using AI.
Grammarly.com – Navigate responsible AI use with this AI checker. Go to www.grammarly.com/ai-detector.
JustDone.com – Maintain the authenticity of your writing by identifying AI-generated content. Go to justdone.com/ai-detector.
Originality.ai – A free and accurate AI detector for GPT4.1, ChatGPT4o, Gemini 2.5, Claude 3.7, DeepSeek V3 and other popular AI writing tools. Go to originality.ai.
Scribbr.com – Identify AI-generated content, including ChatGPT and Copilot, with this free AI detector. Go to www.scribbr.com/ai-detector.
Phrasly.ai – Free checker instantly checks for AI-generated text from ChatGPT, Claude, and more. Go to go.phrasly.ai/ai-detector.
Sapling.ai – This free AI detector outputs the probability that text is AI-generated by a model such as ChatGPT or Gemini. Go to sapling.ai/ai-content-detector.
GPTZero.me – Uncover the shortcomings of ChatGPT and major AI models to ensure every word is worth reading. Go to gptzero.me.
QuillBot.com – Get a detailed report on how AI tools may have been used to create the content. Go to quillbot.com/ai-content-detector.
SurferSEO.com – Identify text generated with AI writing tools and pick out content that was not written by a real person. Go to surferseo.com/ai-content-detector.
