Grammarly Authorship: AI tool to determine if an author is original or plagiarizing

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the future direction of Grammarly, the AI writing assistant highly favored by non-native English speaking students, has become a focus of academic concern. In recent years, various AI tools have been able to generate all kinds of articles in real-time, and in comparison, Grammarly no longer seems to be the sole tool for students and professionals.

Although ChatGPT is positioned as an AI chatbot, many have already regarded it as a tool for laziness or plagiarism, capable of generating work reports, school assignments, and even code for engineers or designs for artists. ChatGPT can also be used to refine drafts, edit paragraphs and punctuation, summarize articles, and write business emails using generative AI. Its convenience has gained significant popularity and even outshone Grammarly in some respects.

Facing the possibility that ChatGPT may erode Grammarly's market share accumulated over the years, Grammarly recently announced the launch of a new product, Grammarly Authorship, to differentiate itself from ChatGPT, focusing on "author identity verification."

Grammarly VS ChatGPT

According to the Grammarly official Blog: Grammarly vs. ChatGPT: Choosing the Right AI Writing Assistant The biggest difference between Grammarly and ChatGPT is that authors can write and make AI-based corrections in real-time. Authors can write directly on interfaces of mobile phones, computers, and tablets, and the system suggests alternative words, sentence structures, and paragraphs. The system can detect grammar aspects of the article such as person, active and passive voice, and the credibility of the content to readers.

The free version of Grammarly can check basic sentence structures, spelling, and provide 100 AI-generated suggestions. The paid upgrade subscription version priced at $12 per month allows users to set the style of the article, such as "narrative," "professional," or "persuasive," enabling AI to function as an assistant for editing and proofreading. At the same time, the system can rewrite the article and detect potentially infringing content. Grammarly's unique plagiarism detection feature helps avoid disputes over the authorship of the content, reducing criticism and questioning of the published content, and establishing the author's credibility and reputation.

Grammarly is positioned as an artificial intelligence writing assistant, helping professionals and students improve their writing skills with the aim of providing grammar suggestions, enhancing the clarity of articles, and tone.

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that generates content based on information and prompts provided by humans. Grammarly, on the other hand, is specifically designed for work and academic writing.

Grammarly boasts integration with over 500,000 apps, eliminating the need to copy and paste content. ChatGPT users need to copy and paste from ChatGPT.

Features of Grammarly Authorship

Grammarly Authorship will first be tested on Google Docs in September and will be enabled on Microsoft Word and Apple Pages by the end of the year. When writing using these two word processing software, it will automatically detect whether the input typing is done by a human or generated by artificial intelligence, and it can identify the source of the text, whether it has been copied and pasted, and whether spelling check tools have been used.

According to ING reports, Jenny Maxwell, the head of Grammarly For Education, stated that over the past year, Grammarly has heard many students expressing concerns about the impact of the AI trend, questioning their academic professionalism and integrity. Now, submitting reports and assignments requires stronger AI tools to prove that the author has personally written them and not entirely generated by AI or copied and pasted.

The launch of Grammarly Authorship addresses the pain points of ChatGPT. Many legal disputes involving ChatGPT are due to protests from original creators about plagiarism and theft. ChatGPT lacks a solution, while Grammarly's new application, Grammarly Authorship, can help authors prove the originality of their articles with AI when publishing, protecting copyrights, maintaining academic achievements of creators. It can also confirm that authors have used the human brain to create, rather than allowing robots to do all the work.