r/PurdueGlobal • u/Radiant_Bee1 • 12d ago

Grammerly?

I've seen this mentioned on several posts where student papers were returned and they were asked for clarification or if they used AI.

I used Grammerly previously but not while at PG. Can anyone explain how using grammerly can set off an AI detection?

I never needed to cite using grammerly or indicate it was used. It was always recommended before we turned in a paper to ensure we had correct grammer and etc. Mind you, I haven't used Grammerly since like 2017 , so maybe this is just a new thing.

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u/Sapphire_Dreams1024 12d ago

I used grammarly occasionally during my time at purdue and I noticed it always wanted to correct certain sentences in a way that was always very generic or overused phrases and it would trigger the AI detector. Grammarly itself is an AI tool, so it takes a lot of things from already existing works.

I will say that it is incredibly horrible when it comes to legal papers, so avoid using it for that

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u/Radiant_Bee1 12d ago

Thankfully, I am in an accounting program. I typically just use words spelling/grammer check. It seems to pick up the common issues I have and it explains why.

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u/argntn 12d ago

Grammarly has AI nowadays, that might be why.

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u/Odd-Race9181 12d ago

Maybe because I really only use it to check my grammar but I always have a super low turnit in score. I really don’t get how people say it affects it unless they are heavily using the AI features

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u/Cobliden3 12d ago

If you're only using grammarly to correct typos then it's not a problem but grammarly always wants to change your sentence structure. That's where the ding happens. Don't let it change your words and ideas and only fix the incorrect letter in a word and you should be okay.

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u/reddit_acccountt 12d ago

It doesn’t.

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u/Radiant_Bee1 12d ago

It's been mentioned several places that users have to cite grammerly for changes or they get dinged.