AI Content Detector

Paste a URL or text and find out if it was written by a human or by AI. Ten metrics, instant results, runs in your browser.

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Was this written by ChatGPT? Paste any text or URL and get an honest answer. The detector checks ten different statistical patterns that AI text tends to exhibit: how closely word frequencies follow Zipf's law, how uniform the punctuation spacing is, whether sentences all start the same way, and more. It also looks at eighteen signals per sentence, things like dash overuse, transition word density, and formulaic structure. Everything runs in your browser; your text stays on your device.

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Tutorial

How to use it

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Grab the text

Either paste a URL and the tool fetches the page content automatically, or switch to text mode and paste the text yourself.

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Hit detect

One click. The analysis runs instantly in your browser across ten document metrics and eighteen per-sentence signals.

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Read the breakdown

You get AI vs Human percentages, a color-coded verdict, and ten detailed metric cards showing exactly why the text scored the way it did.

Guide

Complete Guide to AI Content Detection

How does this actually work?

You give it text (or a URL). It runs ten statistical checks on the whole document and eighteen checks on each individual sentence. Then it tells you what percentage looks like AI wrote it and what percentage looks human. No neural networks, no cloud APIs, no model downloads. Just math running in your browser. The whole thing takes milliseconds.

Why bother detecting AI content?

If you're a teacher checking student work, an editor reviewing submissions, or a marketer auditing your blog, you probably want to know whether the text in front of you was actually written by a person. Not because AI text is inherently bad, but because knowing the source matters for trust. Most detection services charge per scan and require uploading your text to their servers. This one is free and your text never leaves your computer.

What makes a good detection signal?

Zipf's law conformity is the strongest single signal we found. Word frequencies in human text are messy; in AI text they follow a near-perfect mathematical curve. Repeated sentence starters is embarrassingly simple but effective: AI loves starting sentences with 'The' and 'This' over and over. At the sentence level, the detector looks for things like dash overuse (AI loves em dashes), transition words that no human actually says out loud ('furthermore', 'moreover'), and the classic bold-title-then-explanation pattern that ChatGPT defaults to.

What it gets wrong

Corporate press releases and legal text can look like AI even when they're not, because they're formulaic by nature. Very short texts (under 200 words) don't have enough data for the metrics to be reliable. And if someone generates text with AI and then edits a third of it by hand, every detector on the market will struggle with that. Treat the result as a signal, not a verdict. If it says 60% AI, that means 'worth a closer look', not 'definitely a robot wrote this'.
Examples

Real-world tests

Checking an SEO blog post

Someone sent me a coffee brewing guide from a small brand's blog. It looked too polished.

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I pasted the URL into the detector.

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Zipf conformity came back at 0.97 (very high), repeated starters at 65%, and the punctuation was almost robotically even.

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The verdict: AI 72%, Human 12%. Every paragraph followed the exact same pros-cons-recommendation structure.

Classic AI-generated SEO content. The brand name was shoehorned into every section, and there wasn't a single personal opinion in the whole thing.

Verifying a student essay

A teacher friend asked me to check an essay that 'felt off' but she couldn't put her finger on why.

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She pasted the text in the Text tab.

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The essay scored AI 28%, Human 45%. Not terrible, but the sentence starters were suspiciously uniform.

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Looking at the metrics, burstiness was fine (0.65) but Zipf conformity was 0.95, higher than typical student writing.

Probably human-written with some AI-assisted editing. The core ideas seemed original but the polish felt machine-applied.

Use Cases

Who uses this?

Teachers checking homework

Paste a student essay, see if the sentence patterns match what AI typically produces. The detector looks at things students can't easily fake: sentence length distribution, word frequency curves, and punctuation patterns.

Content teams auditing blogs

If you manage a blog with multiple writers or freelancers, run their drafts through the detector before publishing. It takes two seconds and can save you from publishing something that Google might flag as AI content.

Editors reviewing submissions

Got a guest post or a press release that reads a bit too smoothly? Paste it in and check the Zipf conformity and repeated starters metrics. Those two alone catch most mass-produced AI content.

Frequently Asked Questions

?How accurate is this thing?

Honestly, it depends on the text. On blog posts and articles over 300 words, it does a solid job. On short texts or very technical writing, take the results with a grain of salt. No detector, ours included, gets it right 100% of the time.

?What does it actually measure?

Ten things at the document level: Zipf's law conformity, repeated starters, punctuation spacing patterns, sentence length distribution shape, hapax ratio, paragraph uniformity, perplexity, burstiness, vocabulary richness, and word length variation. On top of that, eighteen per-sentence checks looking at dashes, transition words, formulaic structure, and other patterns.

?What's Zipf's Law and why does it matter?

Zipf's law is a pattern in language: the most common word appears roughly twice as often as the second most common, three times more than the third, and so on. AI text follows this curve almost perfectly because it samples from probability distributions. Human writing is messier; we get stuck on words, go on tangents, repeat things we probably shouldn't.

?Why doesn't the URL mode work on some sites?

Some websites load their content with JavaScript after the page loads (client-side rendering). Our fetcher grabs the initial HTML, so if the text isn't in there, we can't see it. For those sites, just copy the text and paste it in the Text tab.

?Does my text get sent anywhere?

Nope. Everything runs in your browser. The text you paste never leaves your device. If you use URL mode, the fetch happens from your browser too (or through a lightweight proxy if CORS blocks it, but the analysis still happens locally).

?Is it really free?

Yes. Free, no account needed, no limits on how many texts you scan. There's no premium tier or hidden upsell. The URL proxy has a rate limit of 5 requests per minute, but the text mode has no limits at all.

?How long does the text need to be?

At minimum 30 words and 3 sentences, but you'll get much better results with 300+ words. The statistical patterns need enough data to be meaningful; a two-sentence paragraph doesn't give the algorithm much to work with.

?What if someone used AI but then edited it heavily?

That's the hardest case for any detector. If a human rewrites a third of the sentences, adds personal anecdotes, and removes the obvious AI patterns, detection gets unreliable. The mixed percentage in the results often points to this kind of hybrid content.

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