Grammarly Plagiarism - Plagiarism with AI-Powered Grammar Checkers
Do you ever see video advertisements for Grammarly or other grammar-checking programs? Did you know that using the revision tools in those ads for a paper and then submitting that paper is almost always considered plagiarism? This is because Grammarly and other grammar checkers now use generative AI, which can completely rewrite your work. In these cases, the Grammarly version is no longer the work of the student.
Check out the examples below of what I call the "Grammarly Fail," because this is a completely unacceptable way for a college student to use Grammarly:
As you can see, the wording in the Grammarly version is different and it is much longer. This is definitely not the work of the original writer. Even worse, the websites that Grammarly cited are fake! It's an extremely serious academic integrity offense to lie about sources that don’t even exist. That’s known as fabricating sources. At a minimum, you should be concerned about being truthful and factual when you write.
Here is another example:
It is possible to use grammar checkers in an ethical way, as shown in the example below, but be very careful when a grammar checker suggests completely restructured sentences.
