How to prove your writing isn't AI-generated with Grammarly's new tool

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AI is everywhere. It tin beryllium problematic for students, professionals, and everyone successful betwixt due to the fact that it's hard to beryllium what was written by AI - and what wasn't.

That could origin superior problems. 

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That disorder could beryllium intensified erstwhile your words are utilized to bid AI. Who's to accidental idiosyncratic mightiness usage generative AI to constitute a paper, lone to find your words were utilized successful the process?

You tin spot however that could spiral retired of control, right?

How bash you debar it?

If you usage Google Docs oregon MS Office and Grammarly, there's a caller diagnostic that could beryllium of assistance. That diagnostic is called Track Your Work, and it's present built close into Grammarly. Even better, the diagnostic is disposable successful the escaped Grammarly account. 

What does Track Your Work do?

Essentially, this diagnostic automatically records impervious of your penning enactment for each caller Google and Word Docs. It's important to recognize that this diagnostic is lone for caller documents. If you unfastened a papers that has already been written, you cannot alteration the diagnostic because, well, that papers has already been written oregon is successful the process of being written.

This diagnostic is simply a portion of Grammarly Authorship, which enables you to show your sources of substance successful either a Google Doc oregon Microsoft Word document. Once you alteration the feature, Authorship tracks your penning process and automatically categorizes the root of substance arsenic you type.

It's elemental to usage and should beryllium considered a indispensable for anyone who wants to ever person impervious that they are the writer of a document.

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How to usage Grammarly Authorship

What you'll need: To usage Grammarly Authorship, you'll request a Grammarly relationship (you tin usage the escaped version) and either a caller Google oregon MS Word document. One origin to support successful caput is that this lone works wrong your web browser, truthful you can't usage Authorship if you're moving with MS Office locally installed.

If you person a Pro account, you tin besides usage this to cheque for AI & plagerism.

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Once you've enabled the feature, a See The Report fastener appears. You tin click that fastener astatine immoderate clip to presumption the report.

I decided to propulsion a accelerated 1 connected Grammarly and transcript and paste this papers into a caller papers that had Track Your Work enabled. Lo and behold, the enactment came up arsenic 100% copied.

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That's right, I copied my ain enactment to beryllium a point.

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I past deleted the copied substance and typed a condemnation to spot however Grammarly would react. A speedy click connected the Report fastener and Grammarly informed maine that the contented was each caller and new.

This clip around, the enactment is each caller and new.

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Huzzah.

But what tin you bash with that report?

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If you click the "Share report" button, a caller pop-up appears. Click the On/Off slider until it's successful the On position, and you'll beryllium presented with a nexus you tin transcript and stock with anyone who needs to cognize that your enactment was 100% you. Send that nexus to your teacher, boss, editor, publisher, oregon whoever needs to cognize that you didn't usage AI to make your document.

And that's each determination is to proving that you are the 1 existent writer of immoderate papers it is that you created.