Turnitin’s AI writing detection provides a percentage and a report with highlighted text that indicates the text that was likely generated using AI writing or paraphrasing tools. It is not meant to provide definitive answers in isolation. More important than any tool is the educator who sees the score and makes decisions balancing this information with their personal knowledge of their students, their work, and institutional policy.
When educators look at the AI writing score and utilize it as a single data point rather than a definitive response, then it is being used as intended. No tool can replace the educator’s judgment combined with other data points to determine whether such a conversation is needed.
Check out this infographic about how to interpret Turnitin’s AI writing score and dialogue with students.