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NO

As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot detect AI-written CVs.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

n/ait cannot be self-verified.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check itnobody-can-cheaply

What the alternative costsThe available tool information gives no price for a specialist human review or an AI authorship detector.

If this goes wrong: you reject a suitable candidate or treat a legitimate CV as dishonest, and the employer carries the resulting hiring and employment risk.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

    How to actually do it

    1. 1. Open the CV and remove unnecessary personal information such as the candidate's home address, National Insurance number and contact details.
    2. 2. Gather any genuine writing sample that the candidate has voluntarily supplied for the same recruitment process, without collecting unrelated private material.
    3. 3. Paste the CV and writing sample into a chatbot with the copyable prompt, keeping the instruction that it must not claim to identify the author.
    4. 4. Separate the chatbot's observable features from its speculation, and discard any conclusion that depends only on tone, polished grammar or unusual formatting.
    5. 5. Compare each remaining point with the original CV, application answers and role requirements, recording whether a human reviewer can check it from recruitment evidence.
    6. 6. Ask the same factual follow-up questions of every relevant candidate and assess their answers against the job criteria rather than against an AI-detection score.
    7. 7. Keep the AI assessment as an internal caution only, and have the hiring manager document the job-related reasons for the final decision.

    Prompt

    Assess the CV below for signs that it may have been generated or heavily edited by AI. Do not claim to identify the author and do not give a percentage probability. Separate observable features from speculation. Check for generic phrasing, repeated structures, inconsistent detail, unsupported achievements, unusual changes in tone, and mismatch with the candidate's other supplied writing. Explain why each feature is relevant, state alternative explanations such as editing support or English being an additional language, and finish with: 1) evidence that can be checked in the recruitment process, 2) questions to ask the candidate consistently, and 3) a recommendation not to use this assessment as the sole reason for rejecting anyone. CV: [PASTE CV HERE] Additional genuine writing sample, if available: [PASTE SAMPLE HERE]

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot prove that a candidate used AI, because similar wording can come from templates, editing help, translation or normal professional writing.
  • AI cannot provide a trustworthy ground truth against which to verify its authorship judgement.
  • AI cannot decide whether a suspected use of AI matters for this role or recruitment process.
  • AI cannot take responsibility for rejecting a candidate or defend the decision if the assessment is challenged.
  • AI cannot replace a consistent, job-related selection process with appropriate human oversight.

What makes this a NO: legal accountability, verification cost and judgement under ambiguity.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output1
Inputs2
Verification0
Liability0
Effort delta1
Total4 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI tell if a CV was written by ChatGPT?
No, not reliably. It can flag stylistic features that may be consistent with AI assistance, but those features also have ordinary explanations and do not prove who wrote the CV.
Should I reject a candidate because their CV looks AI-written?
No. Treat an AI-generated-looking CV as a reason to check job-related evidence, not as proof of dishonesty or a reason for automatic rejection. Apply the same follow-up process consistently to comparable candidates.
Are AI CV detectors accurate?
They can produce a plausible-looking score or explanation, but you usually cannot verify whether the underlying authorship judgement is correct. Do not use a detector result as the sole basis for an employment decision.
How can I check if a CV was written by AI?
Ask the candidate consistent questions about specific achievements, methods and decisions in the CV, then compare the answers with the role requirements and any supplied evidence. Do not present an AI assessment as proof, and seek an employment solicitor or qualified HR professional for a serious case.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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