A closer look at 3 leading plagiarism removers and AI content checkers
While we love our AI writers, nobody wants AI-generated content, and AI content detectors have gotten smarter, with nearly 100% accuracy rates. Now plagiarism removers and AI fixers are jockeying for position in this AI detection space.
But how well do these apps work?
While you may be removing plagiarism, you’re still vulnerable to AI detectors. Let’s explore the world of plagiarism and AI checkers, and how to remove plagiarism effectively using tools like Grammarly and Copyleaks, which serve as both plagiarism and AI checkers.
Plagiarism removers: The big picture
Using AI technology, plagiarism checkers and removers replace plagiarized content with plagiarism-free text. According to one Google search: “All you need is to copy the content and paste it into the given space to make your content free from plagiarism.” Well, that’s the big picture, but it’s not that easy. Let’s dig deeper into the AI-powered plagiarism detection and removal, including popular tools like Grammarly and Copyleaks.
What you need to know about plagiarism removers
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- How they work. These tools, such as Grammarly and Copyleaks, scan your uploaded text, compare it to their database, and their algorithms identify potential plagiarism. Many use advanced natural language processing and deep learning techniques to analyze content.
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- Plagiarized sections are highlighted, often with a percentage score indicating the level of similarity. This helps users identify areas that need attention. Some tools, like Grammarly, also include a word counter feature.
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- Rephrasing options. They offer suggestions for rewording the flagged sections to make them more original. Some even provide AI-powered rephrasing to maintain contextual content flow, acting as both an AI checker and fixer.
A look at three of the top-performing plagiarism removers
Plagiarism Remover
Plagiarism Remover. Navigation elements at top and side. Simply drop text into field
Plagiarism Remover compares text to a vast database of published material. It draws attention to potential problems and offers alternatives for rewording the content using paraphrase algorithms that guarantee originality. Without altering the original document’s meaning, Plagiarism Remover helps users rewrite potentially plagiarized text. This tool serves as both an AI plagiarism remover and an AI content checker, similar to Grammarly and Copyleaks.
Ahrefs
Ahrefs users as well as non-subscribers may not know that their favorite app has an AI humanizer/AI detector and an AI paraphraser. Ahrefs is a supersmart app, so having a free plagiarism checker is a great introduction. Prediction: You’ll end up upgrading–Ahrefs’ keyword analysis capabilities are amazing.
While Ahrefs does a great job of removing potentially troublesome plagiarized text, it’s reluctant to use the term “plagiarism remover”. That means that a lot of these AI writing, paraphrasing and detection apps are AI plagiarism detection tools as well, functioning as both an AI checker and fixer, much like Grammarly and Copyleaks.
Ahrefs is such a powerful tool that we forget that it’s also an AI writer, providing access to a wide range of tools for $27/month. It offers features like AI detection, plagiarism checking, and even AI insights to help improve your content’s uniqueness and originality. Like Grammarly and Copyleaks, it helps ensure compliance with academic integrity standards.
Pricing: Free for AI detector and humanized. Subscribe to the full range of AI writing tools for $27/month
Plagicure: Remove plagiarism without sabotaging text
Plagicure promises to remove plagiarism without changing formatting and wording. And it’s free–is this too much to hope for? I logged in for a test.
An overview. To eliminate plagiarism, you can either paraphrase it, which involves rewording while maintaining the original meaning, or select the original option to keep your wording the same but remove plagiarism indicators. This AI fixer tool aims to remove AI traces while preserving the content’s integrity.
The user has control over how the text is modified, into a version that is plagiarism-free. Copy the revised text, confident that it won’t be flagged for plagiarism and use it in your blog or article. Use parts of it on your social media sites. Content remains original and preserves its formatting. No massive rewrites as with several of the other plagiarism removers.
So I ran a few tests. I pasted about 500 words into the text field and hit the “Cure” button. These apps all need words to go to work, so try these out with 500 or so words. The built-in word counter helps ensure you’re providing enough content for the tool to work effectively.
My content came back cured, but it was overworked, wordy
This is what is disappointing. Good writing these days is that which gets to the point in as few words as possible. It tells a story and leaves the fluff behind. This version of my content was terrible.
I ran it through the humanizer tool, and it came back a little more accessible. I dropped it in Ahrefs’ free AI detector/humanizer app, and those 500 words became much more readable, though I still had a 70% chance of being created by an AI writer. This highlights the importance of using multiple tools like Grammarly and Copyleaks for a comprehensive plagiarism and AI check.
SEO Magnifier’s Plagiarism Changer: Efficient and free
SEO Magnifier’s free plagiarism remover is no frills and efficient. No fancy interface, just drop your text into a field and click on the Plagiarized Content button. Below is the application’s overview of this tool. While it may not have all the features of Grammarly or Copyleaks, it serves as a basic AI copy checker.
Comparison: Before and after the Plagiarism Changer
Original content: Plagiarism Changer is a powerful tool for students and web content creators to remove plagiarism from their work. This advanced paraphrasing tool will help remove plagiarism from your content to give you a 100% unique piece of writing from the existing one.
Plagiarism remover: Plagiarism Changer is a effective device for college students and internet content material creators to do away with plagiarism from their paintings. This advanced paraphrasing tool will assist do away with plagiarism out of your content to give you a one hundred% precise piece of writing from the existing one.
Disappointing results
As you can see from this comparison, the plagiarism remover version of this overview leaves a lot to be desired. While it may remove plagiarism from my article, it doesn’t make sense, and there are grammatical errors.
I also ran this text through Ahrefs AI content detector and humanizer, and it showed that there was an 80% chance of its being written by an AI writer. Clearly, the plagiarism checker/remover version requires a significant rewrite and still doesn’t pass the AI detection test. This underscores the importance of using more sophisticated tools like Grammarly and Copyleaks for thorough plagiarism and AI checking.
An Old Friend, QuillBot
If you haven’t used QuillBot, it’s time to step up and start using this paraphrasing app for plagiarism checking. I’ve been using the free version for the last few years for quick rephrasing of a few paragraphs and have always been delighted with the results.
While I have access to other rephrasing apps, including Writesonic, I prefer QuillBot because it’s so accessible. Just open the app and pop your text into the screen and let the app go to work. Writesonic is loaded with functionality, which is why I like it, but frankly, sometimes it’s hard to find a simple tool. Keep reading and you’ll find that QuillBot is more than a plagiarism checker.
Upgrade to Premium to access Plagiarism Checker
In order to use the Plagiarism Checker, you need to upgrade to the Premium version–less than $10/month based on a yearly subscription. But you’re getting a robust application. Quillbot checks 25K word/month in Premium Version and an unlimited number of words in its Paraphraser. It also includes features like an AI translator and AI text summarizer, making it a comprehensive tool for content creation and optimization, similar to Grammarly and Copyleaks.
How to use the Synonym Slider
QuillBot has a synonym slider. How does this work? Set the slider to a range of numbers from 1-5. This regulates the number of synonyms you can use. The rationale behind this that with each word you add, your writing becomes less concise, less accurate. This is brilliant.
Additional functionality
QuillBot also can review 6K words in its Summarizer. It has an AI detector and a Translator that can translate your document into one of 50 languages. There’s a Citation Generator, a Grammar Checker and QuillBot Flow–an AI writing assistant. These features, combined with its plagiarism checking capabilities, make QuillBot a powerful alternative to tools like Grammarly and Copyleaks.
The ethics of plagiarism removers
Beware the Word Changer/rephraser tools
The Word Changer/paraphraser kinds of tools are great examples of why we need to manage our expectations for these plagiarism management tools. Plagiarism is not about a word or a few words. It’s about ideas. If you’re using someone else’s ideas, you’re plagiarising. Changing a few words–swapping out synonyms is still plagiarism because you’re still stealing the ideas behind those words. But we’re not going back to writing our own documents from scratch. We’ve tasted the luxury of having a writing assistant and it’s too compelling.
Rephrasing is the problem: It’s likely plagiarism
AI detectors and plagiarism removers do different things. An AI detector can tell you if your plagiarism remover document was written by an AI writer. Tools like Grammarly and Copyleaks serve as both plagiarism and AI checkers, helping to ensure compliance with academic integrity standards and acting as a copyright detector.
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- People are getting confused here, thinking that if they use a plagiarism remover, they’ve outsmarted the AI checkers.
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- That’s just not the case. I’ve been setting up little tests for myself, and 500 words of original content sailed through the plagiarism remover, but failed the AI detection test, at 80% chance of having been created by AI writer.
False positives are a big problem
AI detectors have really high accuracy rates–99%, but false positives remain a big problem, especially for those who are most vulnerable. In academia, AI detectors discriminate among students who are non-native language speakers or those who may be neurodiverse–on the autism spectrum, for instance.
It also discriminates against those who speak with different linguistic patterns–Blacks, for instance, may register as positive on a UAI document. This is why it’s crucial to use multiple tools like Grammarly and Copyleaks to cross-verify results and minimize false positives.
Conclusion
It’s hard to know where all of this is going because the industry is moving so fast. The ethics of plagiarism are taken seriously in academia. For those of us who are publishing online, the matter of publishing plagiarized content has implications for SEO. Plagiarized content is duplicate content and search engines hate it. They get confused and it doesn’t get indexed. So you’ve spent hours on a story, hoping it will boost your Google authority; instead, it lives in Limboland.
What does the next AI writing assistant look like
We’re using writing assistants, AI detectors, paraphrasers, rewording tools and plagiarism removers. I just used Ahrefs to paraphrase a paragraph because part of it may have been generated by AI. What I got was typical AI text–boring, too many words, stuffy. Despite all the protestations and promises from AI assistants, this paragraph was everything we hate about AI content. We still need writers to tell a story.
To comply with academic integrity and copyright infringement laws, use the tools that we’ve discussed here, many of them free. Other AI detection tools include Grammarly, Copyleaks, Turnitin and Originality AI. These tools will continue to evolve, offering more comprehensive plagiarism and AI-checking capabilities to meet demand
If you’re wondering how to incorporate AI and plagiarism detectors, checkers and removers into your workflow, contact Janet at Top of Mind Marketing. We’re writers and digital media specialists. 510.292.1843
