These guides cover the core questions: how to tell whether text may be machine-written, how far to trust a detector, what its percentage measures, and where AI-assisted writing sits between human and generated. Start with the first guide, then read the accuracy and error guides before relying on any result.
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How to Tell If Text Is AI-Generated
Practical signs of AI-written text, why no single sign proves anything, and how to combine your own reading with a detector result.
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How Accurate Are AI Detectors?
AI detector accuracy depends on the text, model and edits. Here is what independent studies and vendor documentation report, with the conditions behind each figure.
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Can AI Detectors Be Wrong?
Yes. Here is how AI detectors produce false positives and false negatives, who is most affected, and how to treat a result responsibly.
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What Does an AI Detection Percentage Mean?
Our 'Flagged as AI-like' figure is the share of passages labeled AI-like, not the probability that a text is AI-written. Here is how to read it.
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AI-Assisted vs AI-Generated Writing
AI-assisted writing starts with a human draft and uses AI to help; AI-generated writing starts with a prompt. See the spectrum, how detectors and policies treat each.
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Why Does My Writing Show as AI?
Why a detector can label your own writing as AI-like, which kinds of writing are most affected, and how to respond calmly if the result is being questioned.
If you have the text in front of you, you can run it through the ai generated text detector and read the flagged passages alongside these guides.