THEY CAN’T TELL IF IT’S AI🤖 Colleges have no way of telling if you used AI to edit your college essays because AI detection software does not work and there’s no way to manually. Tell the difference between AI generated text and human generated text unless, someone leaves an obvious tell. That said, you should only use AI ethically, which means using it for brainstorming, or getting a first draft of a response, but then heavily editing it on your own to make sure that it sounds like you and rep