Handwritten high school essay flagged 30% AI by Turnitin but 0% by GPTZero
Inevitable-Cap-6457 · reddit · 2026-09-12
- A high schooler's fully hand-written 650-word essay scores 0% AI on GPTZero, Quillbot and ZeroGPT, but 12% on Grammarly and 30% on Turnitin — the tool many schools actually use.
- With the deadline that night, the student faces a false-positive accusation.
- The case underlines how wildly AI detectors disagree on the same text, with schools relying on the harshest one.
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