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Mitigating AI-Generated Content

While we understand the advances in GenAI provide opportunities for its integration into the classroom, the use of AI may not be appropriate for use by all disciplines. Below are recommendations for adapting course assignments and activities to reduce the use of AI-generated content by students.

Assignment Ideas to Mitigate the Use of AI-Generated Content

Below are recommendations for adapting course assignments and activities to reduce the use of AI-generated content by students.


Tools to Mitigate AI

The tools below focus on identifying AI content. While these tools can detect AI to a degree, modified AI-generated text is difficult to detect. False positives and negatives may happen. It is important to know how the AI detection tool works and understand the reports. As AI tools evolve, they will become harder to detect. It’s best to start with an in-class and/or proctored writing assignment for a sample of original writing.

Honorlock can be used in conjunction with the LMS to create a proctored writing assignment.
Honor Lock
Turnitin is the University’s plagiarism checker within Canvas. Gain insights on how much of a student’s submission is authentic, human writing versus AI-generated from ChatGPT or other tools
Turn it In

GPTZero is the leading AI detector for checking whether a document was written by a large language model such as ChatGPT. GPTZero detects AI on sentence, paragraph, and document level. However, the tool is not trained to identify AI-generated text after it has been heavily modified after generation.
GPT Zero

Content at Scale is an AI Detector (now with 98% accuracy) to see if your text is human or AI generated from ChatGPT, GPT4, & Bard.
Content at Scale

Writefull GPT Detector can identify content written by GPT-3 as well as ChatGPT. After analyzing, it provides a score indicating the probability that the content was written by AI.
Writefull

Hive AI Detector can be used for both text and image detection.
Hive Moderation