AI Ethics & Academic Integrity Statement

^{Last updated: 20/09/2026}

1. Human Agency Over Ghostwriting

Diglot is designed as a thinking and drafting partner, not a ghostwriter. Suggestions, grammar corrections and structural recommendations are proposed to you, and, unless you turn on auto-accept, changes from the Cowriter assistant appear as edits you accept or reject before they enter your document. The text stays yours, and so does the responsibility for it.

2. Supporting Non-Native Writers Facing AI-Detection Accusations

AI detectors have been shown to misjudge writing by non-native English speakers, whose phrasing can look statistically “predictable”. When you turn on authorship protection, the Diglot Authorship Certificate keeps a signed, append-only record of how a document was written in Diglot: what was typed, what was pasted, and what came from Diglot’s AI tools. Anyone can verify, without an account, that an issued certificate has not been altered.

The certificate documents the writing process. It is evidence you can show and discuss, not a verdict on who produced the text, and it cannot rule out every way of gaming it.

3. Transparent Attribution and Citation

Academic scholarship requires honoring predecessors. The Diglot editor formats references in APA, MLA, Chicago (author-date and notes), Harvard, IEEE and Vancouver, and the free citation generator on this site covers 15 styles. Sources suggested inside Diglot come from bibliographic databases such as Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and arXiv, or from web search results in Deep Research and web answers, rather than being invented by a model. AI tools can still make mistakes with metadata, so check every reference before you submit.

4. No Training on Your Writing

Diglot does not sell your content, and does not use the substance of your writing to train third-party foundation models. The AI providers that process your text for us do so under contracts that prohibit them from training on it. You keep ownership of your content. The Privacy Policy and Terms of Service set out the details, and they control if anything here differs.

5. Institutional Standards

We aim to support university honor codes and publication-ethics guidance such as that of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). Whether and how AI assistance may be used is decided by your institution, course or publisher: check their policy, and disclose AI use wherever they ask you to.