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Tools like Quillbot in academic writing

I'm currently writing a manuscript and as part of the the literature review, I discuss several studies and highlight their findings. In communicating these findings, I find myself paraphrasing components of these studies' methodologies (always citing the article, of course). When something sounds awkward  in my writing, I'll feed my sentence through a tool (Quillbot AI) that refines my writing. It seems to do this through a complex algorithm that alters syntax and diction while preserving the sentence's original meaning. I find that it's quite effective, and you can run it multiple times to select the optimal iteration of your sentence. Would using a tool like Quillbot be an ethical issue? To be clear, I'm not copying and pasting chunks of articles and feeding them through the bot. I am using it to refine my own writing, which in this case involves paraphrased  information from other articles.
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Sounds like you’re using this as an automated editing tool like Grammarly. It’s probably ok? But, it seems more like a scale of ok to not ok instead of a binary, so it will depend on just how much of what type of work the tool is doing for you.