We want LI to be one of the friendliest places on the internet, where lawyers and law students help each other with their career related queries and occasionally discuss other stuff that might affect their lives too. In other words:
1. Be kind, respectful and helpful to each other.
2. Be bona fide, truthful, genuine and curious.
3. Assume the best intention of others.
Therefore, in using the site, you must agree to do your best to uphold these community guidelines.
Note that what you find here is written and moderated by anonymous people on the internet.
Therefore everything you read here is very likely unverified, rumour, speculation and/or downright false.
In continuing to read anything here, you must therefore agree not to take anything you read here as factual and that you will exercise due caution, diligence and common sense before acting on any information you may come across here.
You also agree to report any inaccurate or malicious comments with the buttons. Moderators take action within 24 hours, as required and appropriate under law.
Our full terms and conditions apply too.
Do you solemnly agree to all of the above?
There are paraphrasing tools in the market, such as Quillbot. These tools work by allowing you to input a paragraph, which they then rewrite or refine in different ways. Please note that they do not generate new content but simply rewrite what you have already written in a different way. To make my research paper appear more polished, I used Quillbot. At that time, I had no idea what ChatGPT was. Unfortunately, if you use paraphrasing software and then run your text through AI detection tools, it flags your work as AI-generated, even if it's not.
Recently, during an interview, I had a hard time convincing them that I didn't use ChatGPT for my paper. I eventually had to remove my publication from my resume.