Grammarly Authorship watches you write in real time
Grammarly’s expansion from writing assistance to AI tools that can write for you continued this week with a new feature designed to spot AI-composed text. Grammarly Authorship is coming to Google Docs as a beta and aims to help educators in particular work out when students are using AI to write their assignments.
Teachers and education policymakers have been wrestling with the issue of figuring out when something is written using AI for a long time, but ChatGPT and its rivals heightened the sense of urgency for such a tool as they make the traditional methods unreliable. The difficulty has been compounded by issues around false positives and difficulties in picking AI compositions from those written by students learning how to write, especially those who have English as a second language.
Grammarly Authorship attempts to address those problems by avoiding the way many existing AI detection tools analyze a text when it’s done. Instead, Grammarly Authorship tracks the real-time writing of a text. Supposedly it can tell when something has been typed, pasted from elsewhere, or generated on the page with AI. The tool will integrate with more than half a million applications and websites, centering on writing platforms like Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and Apple’s Pages.
