I Ran My Own Writing Through a Detector. 38% AI Score. I’ve Been Teaching 12 Years.
Decided to test what these tools would say about my own writing. Ran the first three paragraphs of a unit handout I wrote entirely myself through GPTZero.
38% probability of AI generation.
I have been teaching for twelve years. I wrote that handout. There is no universe in which that text was AI-generated.
What this told me: either my writing style happens to share patterns with AI text (which tells you something about how AI was trained – on human text), or the tool is generating false confidence numbers that have no relationship to reality.
Either way: if my own writing gets a 38% flag, what are we doing using these scores to investigate students? The baseline false positive rate on authentic human writing is apparently not low enough to justify any formal process.
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i ran my department handbook section through GPTZero last month. 44%. i co-wrote it with another teacher, meetings over three weeks, genuinely agonized over the language. 44% AI. at what point does admin start questioning teacher content too?
Has anyone tried running their OWN writing through these detectors? You'd be surprised. Mine came back at 22% on a lesson plan I wrote by hand in 20 minutes. The more formal and organized your writing is, the more it apparently looks like AI to these tools.