Fooling the detector: Using Grammarly’s AI Detector

Vol. 6, No. 3 Fall 2024

Brian Hotson, Editor, CWCA/RCCR


As I’ve written before here, writing support tools can be both helpful and harmful, just and unjust (See, Friends don’t let friends Studiosity (without reading the fine print) and Academic writing has completely changed: Turnitin forges ahead). Grammarly, a $13 billion USD company (2021), launched an AI detection tool in 2024, which comes bundled in with a Grammarly Premium subscription. Many universities and colleges offer Grammarly Premium without charge and promote the tool to students, faculty, and administrators. AI tools embedded into these writing support tools have changed the formulation of how these tools function. But, do they work as advertised? Continue reading “Fooling the detector: Using Grammarly’s AI Detector”