How to Get Past AI Plagiarism (ChatGPT Detection)

AI-generated content produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT has been flooding the internet since its release a few years ago. The year is now 2024, and we’ve yet to see a bigger breakthrough that allows content creators, marketers, and writers to draft content quickly and more efficiently than ever before. It’s been a real turning point in technology and its implications in our day to day lives.

As more individuals and organizations use AI for content creation and university, concerns about plagiarism and content duplication arise. 

AI plagiarism isn't traditional plagiarism in the sense that someone is deliberately copying someone else's work. Instead, it's the inadvertent production of similar or near-identical content by different users utilizing the same AI tool. There’s also the concern that using AI-generated essays and homeworks are actively harming the learning progress of students.

If you use ChatGPT to write a lot of content, you might be concerned about your results coming back as plagiarized. Here's a few tips on how to differentiate ChatGPT & other AI writing tools to seem more human and avoid getting flagged by plagiarism detectors.

1. Adding Human Emotion & Edit ChatGPT's Output

While AI models like ChatGPT are advanced, there's one thing they don't have: human emotion. To make your content stand out and avoid AI plagiarism:

• Incorporate Personal Experiences: Narratives grounded in real-life experiences can offer a unique spin on any topic. By weaving in personal stories or examples, you can create content that's truly one-of-a-kind. This also ensures that while you’ve used ChatGPT to write content, you’re still adding your own spin to the output.
• Use Descriptive Language: ChatGPT tends to generate precise, straightforward responses. Be creative, go in-depth, and expand your results waaaay beyond the realm of anything you can get out of ChatGPT. 
• Add Useful Information: As of August 2024, ChatGPT’s knowledge cutoff is September 2023 (Claude Sonnet’s cutoff is April 2024) — by adding information that goes beyond this date, you can make sure that your content won’t be tagged as AI or, at the very worst, you have evidence that you actually wrote the content.
• Outlines Only: These tools really should only be used to get you 50-80% of your writing done. Hyper-personalized, custom responses are really hard to get unless you prompt ChatGPT correctly (something many people still struggle with). I'd recommend only asking for outlines or guidelines if you want to avoid getting picked up as AI-generated. You can test it with a popular AI writing detection tool if you want some further insights.

2. Use Undetectable AI Tools to Rewrite Your Content

Undetectable AI is a platform built on altering AI-generated content to make it untraceable and undetectable from AI detection tools – aiming to make text more humanized by removing the robotic trace of ChatGPT. There's other alternatives to Undetectable too, some other great tools are HideMyAI and ContentAtScale.

Here's how it can help get past AI plagiarism:

1. Content Enhancement: Undetectable refines AI-created content, eliminating signs of machine generation. It sometimes confuses vocabulary when working with high-level writing.
2. AI Detection Evasion: With the rise of AI content creation, tools that detect (like Winston, Copyleaks, Originality AI) such content have also emerged. Undetectable AI was designed to bypass these detectors.
3. Style Matching: Not all human writing is the same. Whether you want content that reads like a professional research report or a casual blog post, they can adjust and mimic various human writing styles to suit your intent.
4. Real-Time Processing: For those in a hurry, it'll be nice to know you can get a revised paragraph of writing in about 10-30 seconds for most submissions

There are also other AI humanizers that can achieve the same effect like WriteHuman and Netus. The only trade-offs are that you’re more likely to be flagged as using AI when using those than Undetectable AI (they’re newer) and you lose the output customization features that Undetectable AI brings.

3. Use Quillbot to Paraphrase Your Writing

QuillBot is a paraphrasing tool that can assist in rephrasing your AI-generated content. It goes a step further than Undetectable but requires a bit more work to choose what you want & don't want included in a paragraph.

• Seven Different Modes: Quillbot offers various writing modes, such as Standard, Fluency, and Creative. Each mode provides a unique spin on the content, allowing you to choose the style that best suits your needs. You can rearrange your sentences based on the context you want things in. You can do this sentence by sentence, word by word.
• Multiple Rounds of Paraphrasing: To ensure the content remains unique, it might be a good idea to paraphrase it multiple times, using different modes. This iterative process ensures a higher degree of uniqueness. Just don't go too overboard – it will look like you just read the thesaurus for the first time and went synonym crazy

Here's what it would look like on the same paragraph from ChatGPT I used earlier:

You can see text highlighted in orange and yellow. These highlight changed words, structure changes, and other variations it made to your writing. This was created by default too, just using the Standard English paraphrase tool. Click on a word and you'll see replacements (same for sentences).

That said, I highly recommend using QuillBot with Undetectable AI instead of just using one. This makes sure that you’re going to bypass AI detection more often (courtesy of Undetectable AI) while retaining its readability (thanks to QuillBot).

Use AI As a Tool, Not a Replacement

If there's one thing you get out of this article, it's that AI tools like ChatGPT can really provide great pointers and intros, but the actual meat of writing should come mainly from you, especially if you want to avoid getting flagged for plagiarizing with AI.

I've hired dozens of part-time writers and many of them just use ChatGPT directly to answer job post questions. It gets quite obvious seeing an almost identical job response for so many candidates in a row.

Use AI to clear up ideas, write the brief, and support what you're already best at. It's not worth getting flagged as AI & takes even longer to use the tools mentioned above if you overly rely on ChatGPT. Hope this helped!