AI detection on essays

Pre-College Topics International Baccalaureate (IB)
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I submitted my HLE essay and it flagged as 100% AI written on copyleaks. My teacher assured me that it is fine, she will still say to the IB that AI didn’t write the essay (because another student had the same issue). The problem is, I used grammarly (not on the entire essay but maybe 30%). I am afraid that the IBO AI detector will flag it as AI written and I will fail the IB. I also used grammarly on the EE (also like 30%), so I am afraid the IBO will flag this too. What would happen if they flag it? How would I prove that I wrote it myself?

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Do you have any notes, outlines, rough drafts, or early editions of your final papers that you could use as proof?

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AI detectors are very inaccruate and everyone knows it. Don’t worry about it.

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I have a lot of different versions of different paragraphs for the HLE. And I rewrote the EE like 2 times, so I have multiple papers just sitting in my desktop.

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Thank you, that actually makes me feel better

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I advise my students to turn on track changes (in Word – there is an equivalent in Google docs) so they have a paper trail in case anything comes up incorrectly as AI-generated. You’re right that Grammarly-corrected prose does sometimes trigger AI detectors, so you might want to save the pre-edited version.

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I advise my students to turn on track changes (in Word – there is an equivalent in Google docs) so they have a paper trail in case anything comes up incorrectly as AI-generated. You’re right that Grammarly-corrected prose does sometimes trigger AI detectors, so you might want to save the pre-edited version. I advise you to simply explain that you used Grammarly to check your grammar and that’s it. Or you can also provide other samples of your writing to demonstrate the consistency of your style. Now it’s worth understanding that many people use ai essay writer, the same ai that writes papers, and more. People must learn to distinguish somehow. If anything, let IB investigate. You are on the side of truth, so everything will be fine.

Now it is difficult for teachers to understand where the robot wrote and where the person wrote. Teachers must understand this.

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I would say that it’s not difficult to understand (in most cases) where the robot stops and the human begins – it’s just difficult to prove.