# Detect AI writing in student essays

**Use case:** 

For teachers and editors who need a second opinion on whether a text was written with AI. The run scores the pasted essay on perplexity, burstiness, sentence patterns and vocabulary and returns the text, AI score, human score, verdict, confidence and word count as a dataset row.

## Input

```json
{
  "text": "The Industrial Revolution changed how people lived and worked. Before it, most families farmed small plots and made goods by hand at home. Factories brought steam power, long shifts and crowded cities, and many workers left the countryside for wages in town. Historians still argue about whether living standards rose or fell in the first decades, because wages, food prices and health records point in different directions."
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "text": {
    "label": "Text (preview)",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "ai_score": {
    "label": "AI Score",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "human_score": {
    "label": "Human Score",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "verdict": {
    "label": "Verdict",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "confidence": {
    "label": "Confidence",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "word_count": {
    "label": "Words",
    "format": "number"
  }
}
```

## How it works

### 1. Sign up on Apify or log in

The AI Content Detector - GPT, Claude, Gemini Text Check Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Detect AI writing in student essays". [Sign up or log in](https://console.apify.com/create-task-from-example/af45EEY1t9gZyO6xG) and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

### 2. Start the "Detect AI writing in student essays" task

The AI Content Detector - GPT, Claude, Gemini Text Check Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like text to analyze, to match your specific use case.

### 3. Receive the "Detect AI writing in student essays" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as text (preview), AI Score, human score, and more.

### 4. Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also [run the "Detect AI writing in student essays" task via API](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/ai-content-detector.md).

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [AI Content Detector - GPT, Claude, Gemini Text Check](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/ai-content-detector.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/ai-content-detector.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


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