QuillBot is designed to write with the user, strengthening original ideas and text. If a user takes someone else's writing and tries to pass it off as their own, that is considered cheating, whether QuillBot was used or not. It is necessary to cite all outside sources to avoid plagiarism.

Can teachers know if you use QuillBot?

Not at all. Turnitin can't detect QuillBot. This is because Turnitin's algorithms don't really detect paraphrasing. Instead, they find similar grammatical patterns, phrases, and sentence structures.

Is using a paraphrasing tool cheating?

Is using a paraphrasing tool cheating? Ideally, using paraphrasing tools is considered cheating because the content is not original and the tools do not give credit to the real author. It is cheating because you have not written the content yourself but used a computerized tool or bot to spin the content for you.