AI detectors - like Scribbr’s AI Content Detector - are tools designed to identify the probability that your text is generated by artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT. They do this by measuring specific characteristics of the text (perplexity and burstiness). When text - even though it was written by you - contains characteristics that are similar to text written by AI, your document might have a higher probability of being written by AI even though you wrote it yourself. Examples of these characteristics are...

While our AI Detector is generally effective in providing accurate percentages (refer to our research on the best AI Detectors here!), these numbers might sometimes deviate due to various factors. For more information on how AI detectors function, you can find our article here.