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ELI5: How do professors detect that ChatGPT or plagiarism has been used in papers and homework?
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For context I graduated from university years ago, before the popularity of ChatGPT. The most that we had was TurnItIn, which I believe runs your paper against sources on the internet. I’ve been reading some tweets from professors talking about how they are just “a sentient ChatGPT usage detector”. My question is how can they tell? Is it a certain way that it’s written? Can they only tell if it’s an entire chunk that was copied off of a ChatGPT answer?

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They don't. It's gut feeling. Sometimes the gut feeling is outsourced to Software but the false positives are absolutely horrific and are already actively working against people's careers.

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