Just wanted to share a little victory and say thanks to this community! I'm a Spanish speaker studying in the US, and I've always been self-conscious about my writing. I used DeepL to translate my ideas, which was fine, but I started using ChatGPT to "polish" my sentences. Then I got worried my professors would think the final product wasn't me. The tip about checking for very American idioms was a game-changer! I realized the AI was adding phrases I'd never even heard before. Now, I use it more sparingly and make sure the core argument and sentence flow are 100% mine. Understanding how to detect ai writing helped me become a better, more confident writer.