You’re using AI without even knowing it

3 min readNov 28, 2023

Millions of question marks flying from a laptop screen into the air. Two hands rest on the laptop keyboard. — AI generated by https://ideogram.ai/

“I am scared of AI”

“I am not going to use AI ever”

“I don’t know how it works, I think I’ll pass on it”

Are all common phrases that you or someone else may have said. It’s understandable, it’s new and it looks like it can do your job better and faster.

As a student, you may have come across Turnitin, which is popular and used amongst many teachers to manage and grade your assignments. Did you know they use AI? Specifically Gradescope, which according to their website is used by 2,600+ universities, 140k+ instructors, and 3.2M+ students. This is one of many ed-tech companies that you may have used — and they use AI.

We have all probably used Grammarly once or more to check for spelling, grammar, and to see if we can rephrase our sentences. Maybe you’re a premium subscriber to their services. They have deeply invested in adding AI into their core selling features to compete with the likes of ChatGPT and other powerful tools that you may have encountered. You can visibly see this when you land on their website home page, which reads “Personalized AI, Everywhere You Write”. The work you input into is most likely processed by AI to give you recommendations on what to change or generate entirely new paragraphs for you.

Google and Microsoft products are another set of popular services that you use most often every day: Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Teams, YouTube, and Word to name a few. Their recent announcement describe how they implement AI into their ecosystem of products to create a seamless experience. For example, with Gmail you’re able to formalise your email if you think it sounds too informal and with Docs you’re also able to write up a whole document just by telling it what you want it to write. Microsoft is doing a similar thing like Google but also adding AI into Windows through Co-Pilot, which you can already experiment with in Edge (with Bing) and most likely come across it when you search something up and it pops up with a chat or asks if you want a summary of the page you’re viewing.

Lastly, Notion. It has exploded in popularity for note-taking with Microsoft releasing their own competitor Loop. You may have heard or already using Notion to organise your notes and assignments. They’re using AI to help you write and ask questions where it will go through all your notes and pages to hopefully answer your question quickly saving you the time browsing and trying to find it yourself.

Clearly, AI is here to stay and soon you’ll not be able to escape using it or even realising that you are using it.

Here’s how we at Mark This For Me are hoping on the trend of AI and giving you a tool that will help with your studies. We strongly believe there is a positive benefit in using AI and we believe that you can use AI responsibly where it can positively support and enhance your learning process.

In short words, we aim to give guidance, not answers with AI.

Hop onto markthisforme.com to learn more about how you can use AI safely without just getting answers but obtain true guidance and feedback that stimulates critical thinking and point out where you can improve as if you were having a 1-to-1 meeting with your personal tutor.

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