Seeing your own writing flagged by AI detectors as “AI-written” can be unsettling, especially when you know the ideas, arguments, and analysis are entirely your own. For many students and researchers, the AI score raises a bigger question than the number itself: what does this actually mean? AI detectors often flag original work re-written using an AI tool as “AI-generated” because they …
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Riddhi Shah
Why Paperpal Built Its Academic AI Detector (And Why Binary Scores Don’t Tell the Full Story)
by Riddhi Shah
For the longest time, we at Paperpal didn’t want to build an AI detector. Reducing complex human thought, collaboration, and creativity to a binary label of human or AI felt deeply flawed. Writing, especially in academia, has always been a deeply human process, a negotiation between knowledge, experience, and, now increasingly, technology. But the way writing happens has changed. Academics today are …
Generative AI tools are now an integral part of academic writing. From summarizing literature and structuring arguments to paraphrasing dense text and polishing grammar, students and researchers are using AI at nearly every stage of the scientific writing process, making AI disclosures more of a norm. Rising Adoption of AI …
