How to Detect AI-written Content and Plagiarism

Will November 30, 2022, be remembered as the day that changed content writing as we know it forever?

That day marked the launch of ChatGPT, and since then, hundreds of AI-powered copywriting tools, writing assistants, and content creation apps have flooded the internet.

The goal? To help content writers, marketers, and SEO folks create content faster, easier, and more efficiently.

While some of these tools can be quite useful for brainstorming ideas, developing the basic structure of an article, or generating catchy ad headlines, the actual writing might be tricky.

In its current state, pure AI content is far from ideal. While at times it may look and sound well-written and professional, it can also be misleading, irrelevant, or just plain wrong (AKA artificial hallucination). It can also be penalized by search engines and negatively affect your SERP ranking.

As AI writing tools proliferate, it will be critical for content marketers and SEO professionals to vet their content to ensure it’s authentic, trustworthy, and plagiarism-free.

What is AI content detection?

In short, AI content detection is a process that uses a combination of machine learning and natural language processing techniques to figure out whether the text was written by a human or generated by AI.

Tools that use this process are called “AI content detectors” or “AI detectors” and are trained on large datasets of human- and machine-written content to identify patterns in each type of writing.

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