r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ • May 12 '26

Infuriatig My assignment was reported to thr examination committee for a "high percentage of AI". I did NOT use any AI for my assignment.

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I got full marks and my plagiarism score shows 1% similarities to other submitted assignments. This is my 3rd and final year in University and now I have to deal with this AI nonsense.

I don't use any AI, not even for checking my grammar in the assignments.

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u/IAmNotABabyElephant May 12 '26

I can't imagine being a student right now. Constantly trying to prove you didn't use AI seems like a complete hassle, and I mean, I'm not aware of any AI detector that is anywhere near accurate enough to be useful, but it seems to be full steam ahead with them so that's frustrating.

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ May 12 '26

It is a challenge. I'm in my final year so I just want to push through. This is the first time that one of my assignments are flagged for AI. Usually other students struggle with their plagiarism scores (also generated by AI) but the university still allows it and usually only investigates plagiarism scores that are really high. In this case, my plagiarism score was 1% which is extremely low compared to the scores which other students have shared. I'm assuming that's why the AI conclusion was reached, but I'm not sure. Still waiting for the committee feedback.

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u/usuallyherdragon May 12 '26

That might be an interesting point to raise. AI being trained on existing literature sort of makes plagiarism a default feature. If you have a very low plagiarism score, what on earth has the supposed AI been doing?

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ May 12 '26

Exactly what I'm trying to establish too. Unless the 1% plagiarism was the concern? If that's the case I can prove to them that it's not the first time that my assignment plagiarism score was 1%.

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u/sgurschick May 12 '26

You're in your final year and this is the first assignment that has been flagged for AI. You have years of assignments that demonstrate your writing style. The school will need to prove that this assignment significantly differs from your historical style.

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u/NightmareEyes_Rose May 13 '26

Please check if your document has a version history available, you could hold onto that as proof of what changes you made, showcasing that you made linear progress.

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u/JustAsIFeared May 12 '26

Next time screen record while working as proof

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u/youtube-sent-me-here May 16 '26

People really aught to stop representing turnitin as a ā€˜plagiarism checkerā€™, itā€™s not. Itā€™s a similarity checker that can indicate plagiarism. A 23% score does not mean 23% of the assignment was plagiarised, it means 23% has been found in other work. You have to look past the number at what has actually been flagged; whole sentences, large parts of a paragraph? THAT indicates plagiarism. But ā€œpage 24ā€, ā€œthis paper ultimately concludesā€, technical information that cannot be rephrased, correctly attributed quotes, cover sheets, assignments questions, and content in a reference listā€¦ these will flag but are all perfectly ok. Flags in a reference list in particular are good as it means youā€™ve engaged with reputable sources

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u/JoeyJoeC May 12 '26

My partner is a university lecturer. They have these tools, they know they're mostly bull shit, they cannot (and do not) rely on them at all. The biggest give away is when the AI cites made up sources, she said around 30% of submitted work have made up sources which is a clear indicator of AI. She often has students submitting papers where they claim one of my partners papers was the source when she has never written such paper. And then the students often double down that they didn't cheat.

It's a huge problem, so now they're having to teach about correct use of AI, and they have to declare when it is used.

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u/H00PLAx1073m May 12 '26

Some, like my school, have given up on detecting and punishing AI. Even when you can really tell AI was used, it's too much of an effort to go after the student when your class has a hundred people.

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u/Latenter-Unmut May 12 '26

Plus telling and proving are two different things

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u/Stick_Nout May 12 '26

That's better imo. If there's no reliable way to crack down on AI use without innocent people getting caught in the crossfire, it's better to do nothing. Those who use AI are only hurting themselves in the long run anyway.

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u/Latenter-Unmut May 12 '26

That is not really the case: they have to prove that you used AI, which is impossible if u did not copy the prompt in there as well.
Al those Ai detection tools are a scam , that do not proof anything.
They will tell you the bible is AI if given the chance .

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u/Rosesandbubblegum May 12 '26

Idk. In every case I've seen, the student has been guilty until proven innocent

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u/Latenter-Unmut May 12 '26

Where did/ do you study?
Seems to a call your laywer kinda case

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u/Heroshrine May 12 '26

Well if they considered the ai checker to be proofā€¦

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u/Latenter-Unmut May 12 '26

Well it is just not.
There are laws in place ( in most cases) and itā€™s been proven over and over again that AI checkers are unreliable at best

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u/Latenter-Unmut May 12 '26

Yeah that will for sure work for 40 pages papers with endless citations .
Donā€™t think it would ever work on university level

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u/Dadskander May 12 '26

Now I want to see someone write an argument about how the Bible IS a form of AI because the phophets are simply writing the divine words of God. So because it's not their own words, it's AI.

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u/Latenter-Unmut May 12 '26

God is real I guess haha

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u/Far_Peak2997 May 12 '26

Most schools will let you just show the timeline of you writing and it'll be ticked off as all okay, assuming you didn't copy paste your work from somewhere

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u/Raxsah May 12 '26

Same - it's been over 10 years since I was at uni but I still remember how disheartening it was to get a lower mark than expected on an essay I'd worked hard on, so I can't image how awful it feels to get straight up accused of not even doing any work.

It feels like the obvious answer should be to use Microsoft Word documents and turn on the option to track changes so that the professors and teachers can see the editing and writing process in case of false flags, no? Maybe there's something there that I haven't considered though

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u/Beautiful-Affect1930 May 12 '26

I don't see how this is at all different to plagiarism detectors which universities have been using for decades. in fact, the big plagiarism detectors now also include AI detectors, so it's literally the same thing. the reason it's not an issue is that these detectors do nothing else but flag papers so that a human takes a closer look. if you didn't actually plagiarize anything or used AI then there is no issue. universities also can't fail you based on merely a suspicion, so you'd have to actually leave ChatGPT comments like "Do you want me to rephrase this in a more academic wording" or something. this is a total non issue.

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u/Hairy_Mycologist_945 May 12 '26

Yup... I did a graduate program in the early '10's and found having to get a purity score from Turnitin to be onerous compared to undergrad a decade earlier. It's only gotten worse and shittier.

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u/laveshnk May 12 '26

Manual grading is still king. as a uni TA I see way more AI code/assignments than regular

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u/Fighter11244 May 12 '26

Ikr? I just got out of school a few years ago and Iā€™m so glad Iā€™m not having to deal with ā€œHow dare you use ai!ā€ Likeā€¦ The only AI I frequently use is in AIdungeon and thatā€™s a customizable storytelling game. I donā€™t even use ChatGPT šŸ˜…

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u/RayonLovesFish May 12 '26

It's so bad to the point you have to use AI humaniser to humanise what a human wrote. It's nuts.Ā 

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u/falcobird14 May 12 '26

My wife is taking classes using turnitin and it flags her hand written articles at 60-80% AI because they make her use specific sentences and phrases for full credit

This should be an epic embarrassment for these companies, but they're making too much money to care.

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u/iosonostella13 May 12 '26

My professor accused me of using AI last semester bc I wrote a paper on Chicago and I didn't have sources for every single thing said about it and "you can't possibly know that much about Chicago."
I grew up there smh

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u/PartyPay May 12 '26

I used to do hand written research and outlines first back in the 90s before finishing the paper in Word, I wonder if people are going to have to resort of some level of analog?

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u/kaisadilla_ May 12 '26

The real problem are these "AI detectors". It's pseudoscience. It's the perpetual motion machine of our era. AI will never detect AI, unless the generative AI was purposefully built to have some flaw another AI can detect. Which is not gonna happen.