AIDetection: A Generative AI Detection Tool for Educators Using Syntactic Matching of Common ASCII Characters As Potential 'AI Traces' Within Users' Internet Browser
This addresses educators' need for AI detection tools, but it is incremental as it offers a heuristic alternative to existing machine learning-based methods.
The paper tackles the problem of detecting AI-generated content in student essays by introducing AIDetection, a heuristic-based web tool that identifies syntactic traces from models like ChatGPT, and it provides bulk scanning with visual summaries and downloadable reports.
This paper introduces a simple JavaScript-based web application designed to assist educators in detecting AI-generated content in student essays and written assignments. Unlike existing AI detection tools that rely on obfuscated machine learning models, AIDetection.info employs a heuristic-based approach to identify common syntactic traces left by generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Gemini, Llama/Meta, Microsoft Copilot, Grammarly AI, and other text-generating models and wrapper applications. The tool scans documents in bulk for potential AI artifacts, as well as AI citations and acknowledgments, and provides a visual summary with downloadable Excel and CSV reports. This article details its methodology, functionalities, limitations, and applications within educational settings.