C AI detector quickstart

Send at least 150 characters for a more reliable signal. The response score ranges from 0 (more likely human-written) to 1 (more likely AI-generated); use it as evidence, not proof.

No language-specific SDK is required. The example uses a standard or commonly used HTTP client to call Sapling's JSON API.

C /api/v1/aidetect

C has no standard HTTP client, so this example uses libcurl.

#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void) {
  const char *api_key = getenv("SAPLING_API_KEY");
  if (api_key == NULL) {
    fputs("Set SAPLING_API_KEY first.\n", stderr);
    return 1;
  }

  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if (curl == NULL) {
    return 1;
  }

  char authorization[512];
  snprintf(authorization, sizeof(authorization), "Authorization: Bearer %s", api_key);

  struct curl_slist *headers = NULL;
  headers = curl_slist_append(headers, authorization);
  headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Type: application/json");

  const char *payload =
      "{\"text\":\"I am an artificial intelligence system designed to help people solve complex problems. "
      "My capabilities include natural language processing, machine learning, and predictive analytics.\","
      "\"sent_scores\":true}";

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.sapling.ai/api/v1/aidetect");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1L);
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, payload);

  CURLcode result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
  long status = 0;
  curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, &status);

  curl_slist_free_all(headers);
  curl_easy_cleanup(curl);

  if (result != CURLE_OK || status < 200 || status >= 300) {
    fprintf(stderr, "Request failed: %s (HTTP %ld)\n", curl_easy_strerror(result), status);
    return 1;
  }
  return 0;
}

Example response application/json

{
  "score": 0.9989,
  "sentence_scores": [
    {
      "score": 0.9764,
      "sentence": "I am an artificial intelligence system designed to help people solve complex problems."
    },
    {
      "score": 0.9812,
      "sentence": "My capabilities include natural language processing, machine learning, and predictive analytics."
    }
  ],
  "text": "I am an artificial intelligence system designed to help people solve complex problems. My capabilities include natural language processing, machine learning, and predictive analytics."
}

The overall score and sentence scores use different methods and may not match exactly. Choose thresholds based on the false-positive and false-negative costs of your use case.

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