This disclosure discloses an artificial intelligence based method and apparatus for checking a text. An embodiment of the method comprises: lexing a first to-be-checked text and a second to-be-checked text respectively, determining word vectors of the lexed words to generate a first word vector sequence and a second word vector sequence; inputting the first word vector sequence and the second word vector sequence respectively into a pre-trained convolutional neural network containing at least one multi-scale convolutional layer, identifying vector sequences in a plurality of vector sequences outputted by a last multi-scale convolutional layer as eigenvector sequences, to obtain eigenvector sequence groups respectively corresponding to the texts; combining eigenvector sequences in each eigenvector sequence group to generate a combined eigenvector sequence; and analyzing the generated combined eigenvector sequences to determine whether the first text and the second text pass a similarity check. The embodiment improves the flexibility in checking a text.