Where did I stop and AI start? — Saying when AI made it
Saying so isn't confessing — it's a name tag. One line on which piece you got help with is enough.
1 · Think first
Saying you used AI isn't confessing to something. It's a label that shows which part is your own work — if you don't say it, even the parts you did well get doubted.
Doing it is easier than you think. Split the assignment into five pieces — topic, sources, draft, polish, fact-check — and write one line on who did each. That's it.
Pictures and videos sometimes get invisible marks too. Google puts invisible watermarks in what its models make, and the European Union has written into law a rule that AI-made content must carry a mark machines can read (when it kicks in is still being adjusted).
2 · Experiment · Split it up
Try it — Split the assignment into pieces and label them
Compare the same book report done three different ways. Orange is a piece AI did, green is a piece you did, and faded means nobody did it.
Figure
If you don't say / If you say
Same assignment — but writing that one line or not makes this much difference.
3 · Quiz
Quick check
Three questions. Pick an answer and it's marked right away, with the reason why.
Today in one line
Today in one line
Saying so isn't confessing — it's a name tag.
One line on which piece you got help with is enough.
Learn more
- The European Commission's guide to the EU AI Act, which requires machine-readable marks on AI-made content. — AI Act (European Commission)
- A paper on how to put an invisible watermark into text. — SynthID-Text, Nature (2024)
- The group building a standard for writing 'how was this photo made?' into the file itself. — Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA)