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ZeroTell makes writing tools, including an AI humanizer and an AI detector. Tools like these can help you learn and write better, or help you pass off work that isn't yours. This page explains which side we are on and how we expect our tools to be used.
Your school's rules come first. If your course, instructor or institution says no AI on an assignment, that rule applies to every ZeroTell tool, including the humanizer. Nothing on this site changes it, and no tool can give you permission that your school hasn't.
We build tools for editing, learning and checking your own work. We don't build them to help anyone hand in writing they didn't do, and we won't market them that way. You won't find a promise from us that our humanizer will "beat" Turnitin or any other checker. Detectors change, results vary, and that's the wrong goal anyway.
Generating an essay with AI, running it through the humanizer and handing it in as your own is academic dishonesty, whatever a detector says afterwards. The same goes for paraphrasing someone else's work to hide where it came from.
If an assignment bans AI, using a humanizer to make AI text harder to spot is still breaking that rule. Our Terms of Use don't allow it, and we don't want that use.
Don't use any ZeroTell tool during a test, take-home exam or any task where outside help is not allowed.
AI detectors, ours included, estimate how closely text matches patterns that are common in AI writing. They do not know who wrote something. Plain, formal or formulaic human writing can score as AI, and edited AI text can score as human. Writers working in a second language are flagged more often.
So treat any score, from any detector, as a reason to look closer, never as a verdict. We show sentence-level highlights so you can see what drove a score instead of trusting a single number. If you teach, please don't treat a detector result on its own as evidence of misconduct; ask about the writing process instead.
When AI help is allowed, being open about it protects you. A short note is usually enough.
Read your syllabus or ask your instructor what AI use is allowed for this task and how they want it acknowledged.
Name the tool and the job it did, for example: "I used ZeroTell's grammar checker to proofread the final draft" or "I used an AI summarizer to review the readings before writing."
If AI-generated wording or ideas appear in your work, cite them the way your style guide says (APA, MLA and Chicago all have formats).
Save notes, outlines and version history. They show your process if anyone ever asks.
Ask which tool produced the result, what score it gave and which passages it highlighted. A score alone is not a finding of misconduct at most institutions.
Version history in Google Docs or Word, drafts, research notes, browser history for your sources and earlier writing samples are the strongest evidence that the work is yours.
Talking through your argument, sources and choices in person is often the quickest way to settle it.
Read your school's academic integrity policy and appeal process, and ask a student advocate or ombudsperson for help if you need it.
It depends on what you run through it and what your school allows. Smoothing out your own draft is editing. Disguising AI-written work so you can submit it where AI isn't allowed is cheating, and that's not a use we support.
No. No one can honestly promise that. Detectors disagree with each other and change over time. What helps is writing the work yourself and keeping evidence of how you did it.
No. We don't share what you write with schools or instructors. See the Privacy Policy for how submitted text is handled.
Use it as one input to start a conversation, not as evidence by itself. Look at the highlighted sentences, compare with the student's other work and ask about their process.
