An AI detector is a tool that estimates, statistically, whether a text was produced by a generative model such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Machine-written sentences tend to pick the most predictable next word far more often than a person does, and their length stays unusually even from sentence to sentence. The detector reads those two signals with rules tuned to the language you pasted and reports an AI probability.
Running a draft through it before you submit shows you exactly which sentences read as machine-written, so you can rework them yourself. If a passage still sounds flat, the paraphrasing tool will rewrite it in a more natural voice.
A note on accuracy: no AI detector is right every time, and this score is a reference signal rather than a verdict. It does not guarantee that a text will pass any particular third-party detector.