ZeroTwo cannot tell you whether a text was written by AI, so a decision about a student's work needs evidence that does not depend on a detector. ZeroTwo has no built-in authorship checker, a model's own guess about what it wrote is not reliable, and its Terms say output is not unique: other people who enter the same or a similar prompt may receive identical or substantially similar output. This page covers what ZeroTwo can and cannot show, and approaches that hold up better.
What ZeroTwo can and cannot show
- It cannot confirm authorship. See Can I ask ZeroTwo if it wrote something?
- Chat history belongs to the student's account. ZeroTwo keeps chats until the owner deletes them, and deleting a chat is permanent. A student can show you a conversation, but a missing history proves nothing either way.
- A student can share or export a conversation. Opening a chat and selecting Share in the top bar opens a dialog where you can copy a link, and people who open the link must be signed in to a ZeroTwo account. In Settings > Data Controls, Export data downloads a copy of the student's data. See How do I share a ZeroTwo chat or message?
Set expectations before an assignment
- Say whether AI tools are allowed, for which steps (brainstorming, outlining, editing or drafting), and how students should acknowledge using them.
- If you allow ZeroTwo, ask students to keep the chat and hand in a shared link or an export with their work.
- Ask for process alongside the product: outlines, drafts, notes and a short reflection on what they asked and what they changed.
- Build in work done in class, or a short oral follow-up, so students explain their own thinking.
When you are concerned about a submission
- Talk to the student first. Ask them to explain their choices, define key terms and walk you through how they reached a conclusion.
- Ask for the process. Drafts, notes, sources and, if they used ZeroTwo, the conversation.
- Check the work itself. ZeroTwo's Terms say output may be incomplete, incorrect or unreliable, so a submission may contain claims or citations that do not hold up. Look for statements that fail when you check them. See Does ZeroTwo tell the truth?
- Follow your school's process. Do not treat any single signal, including a detector score from another tool, as proof.
Do not paste a student's work into ZeroTwo to ask whether it is AI-written. The answer is not reliable, and the work is the student's own content: ZeroTwo's Privacy Policy makes you responsible for having permission to share personal information, and notes that some AI providers may retain submitted content under their own policies.
If students use ZeroTwo
ZeroTwo has no education-specific plan among its plan cards, but schools can ask about ZeroTwo Education through the Contact Sales form (see How do I contact the ZeroTwo sales team?). Its Terms and Privacy Policy also set age limits. See Is ZeroTwo safe for all ages? to check them against your students, and How can educators get started with ZeroTwo? for ways to use it in teaching.