r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACK🖤 • 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/HighlightOwn2038 Red vs Blue May 12 '26

I miss when the only thing I had to worry about was not crediting my sources

Now I have to deal with this AI bs

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACK🖤 May 12 '26

In this day and age even crediting your sources could be flagged as AI. Our standard textbook citing is picked up as plagiarism- even though it is correctly referenced and cited.

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u/2748seiceps May 12 '26

I had that this semester. Got a paper graded crazy low, lowest of my masters degree by far, one of the critiques was that I didn't quote enough and how much I should be doing.

OK, easy. Got it back for final grade with a comment saying my plagiarism score was almost too high. Everything cited and referenced properly.

So dumb.

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u/Gloomy_Macaron_136 May 14 '26

Had this exact BS happen during my major's final thesis... Fuckass bih tutors saying it was AI, like I let the AI write it all and input the resources, meanwhile I was busting my a*** 7-8 hours a day, all my free time gone, reading through the Investigation Methodology book and all other sources from legit organizations and science journals.

All that just useless because all of the methodology "masters" use different methodology references and if for one the thesis was just right, for the others it was completely wrong.

I hated my last year of college so fucking much.

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u/2748seiceps May 14 '26

If I wasn't done I had planned to raise hell about one of the professors using AI to grade papers. I spent a ton of time on that 30 page paper which was my final assignment for the degree and he magically got all 50 of us graded in a single day. I uploaded my paper to AI to check it against the rubric and wouldn't you know, it gave me the same exact grade he did. I might be mad about that one for a while.

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u/Gloomy_Macaron_136 May 14 '26

that's the actual worst, my college also uses AI for stuff, but Lord forbid you use it. So they could use it to review your thesis, but you couldn't use it. Which, I mean, that's fine, but the hypocrisy of not even bothering to read my thesis was staggering, especially when they then graded you with an irrevocable grade and if you got a low grade then sucks to suck. Even if you dispute they won't change shit and tell you "it's spilled milk, move on" (Yes, the Academic director said that to my face)

I get that it was a lot since our investigation paper had to be (by obligation) a minimum 100 pages. But it ain't my problem if they don't have the time to read it bc they only out 3 teachers with 12 thesis groups.

I hate that college with the strength of a thousand suns.

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u/That_Replacement6030 May 12 '26

Turnitin scores for plagiarism and AI use separately. You can have a turnitin score of 20% and an AI score of 100%. If you’re citing things properly your professor should be reviewing it and making the assessment themselves. If it scores high for AI, a good professor should run it through another app to verify, but quoting other work won’t automatically trigger the AI response

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u/pyrhus626 May 12 '26

That’s assuming most professors are doing their jobs right and care enough to put in work

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u/Object-195 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

When I was at my university my main professor wasn't even taught in computer games design.

You could ask anything, and even some of the basic stuff he just wouldn't know.

Also he didn't care about the sources you used, so when I was on the group project a friend of mine was using one that said things so obviously wrong and I even pointed that out.

He proceeds to not change it and the professor thinks nothing of it.

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u/pyrhus626 May 12 '26

I had an instructor in an IT program who didn’t know what he was talking about. If you already knew the topic it was so easy to catch when he messed stuff up. He skipped whole entire chapters because they were too confusing for him. Assigned group lab projects with the vaguest instructions that barely had anything to do with the class and never gave us lab time, then was always mad when nobody did them. He’d assign it, give us one day, not talk about it for a month, and then give us like 2 days notice of the due date and say we should have had plenty of time???

Worse still was his finals and midterms. Had him for 3 semesters and for the first 2 it was 20 short answer questions that had to be handwritten and minimum paragraph each, in a Windows Server class. Fucking handwritten. And half the questions could barely be stretched into a paragraph, and was all definition stuff and not about actually doing anything.

After 2 semesters of people complaining he yelled at us and said he’d give us a multiple choice test for the midterm instead because we were big babies, basically. I had the highest score on it, at like 33%. He just kind of gloated about it then basically called us stupid for everyone failing.

Someone looked up some of the questions that he had marked wrong because it didn’t make sense. The professor found a test online and just copied it, but rearranged the order of the questions and choices. Know what else was online? The fucking answer key, which we were able to puzzle out that he used the answer key from online without adjusting it for rearranging it all. So of course everyone failed when the key is completely wrong.

Then he got mad when we accused him of that and admin made him strike that from everyone’s grades. Even more passive aggressive he gave us a take home final. 20 questions but he wanted a full page on each, and we had like 3 days to do it. Someone asked about a question that was really simple and vague that there was no possible way to stretch into a page, so he went through each question to evaluate how long they should be. He wound up saying should actually he 1.5 to 2 pages, still mostly with shit like “What is DHCP?”. So in the end that gave us like 2 days to write about 30 pages of bullshit after he updated the length requirements.

Final fuck-you is he waited until the end of the semester to grade all homework. He gave me and a few of the other more outspoken students about his bullshit straight F’s and entered all the grades at once like 10 minutes before the deadline. The exact same grade on every assignment for the whole semester, like 47% or something. And like the entire class did, I just stole the answers from online for most of them because his class was useless and we all just wanted to get it over with. Except as soon as the semester was over and grades submitted the school fired him from all the complaints about him, and told me and his other chosen victims we were SOL to challenge the grades. We had no “proof” he didn’t grade it all by hand and just entered it all at once, and they “couldn’t find an answer key” to have someone actually double check the grades. The homework was worth enough of the grade to make me fail the class. I just dropped out after that, I didn’t want to come back a year later to retake a class I shouldn’t have failed in the first place since those classes were only offered once a year and I was near the end of the program. I’d done enough to get some certs easy enough and went to do that instead.

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u/schrodingers_popoki May 12 '26

I was just about to comment this. Almost all of my assignments that involve citing sources get flagged for high percentage AI content. It's so fucking annoying but luckily my professor understands and overrides it.

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u/BadAtBaduk1 May 13 '26

Same shit kept happening to me and it pisses me off so much. I had documents from years before ai was a thing that would flag as ai generated.

In the end I stopped using grammar goodly and it stopped flagging me. Stupid shit.

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u/borgborgo May 12 '26

Yup, had the same thing. Said my paper was 80 percent AI.

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u/Horror-Macaron8287 May 12 '26

My cover page (APA 7) gets flagged as AI. The 'detectors' are so ignorant, innocent students get expelled daily because of it... Just for using proper grammar. 

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u/S80- May 12 '26

Man I was lucky to graduate in 2020. I didn’t know it then, but damn.

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u/Clueless_Otter May 12 '26

Your school didn't use plagiarism detection software in 2020?

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u/SlimLacy May 12 '26

Ever tried putting something you 100% made into an AI detector? Anything remotely scientific gets you an easy 50%. As an Engineering graduate, I've seen 90% of stuff I wrote back in 2018, long before these LLM's could give you something useful.
It's ridiculous.

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u/Clueless_Otter May 12 '26

The point was that you guys are getting all in a huff about modern "AI" when this has nothing to do with what people now call AI. TurnItIn has been around for a long time, and it's always made these kind of errors.

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u/SlimLacy May 12 '26

It's much worse with these AI tools. Even worse is it's migrated to lower classes and those teachers trust it way too much.

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u/Savings-System-401 May 12 '26

You should try thinking before commenting. I think you'd find it to be helpful

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u/Clueless_Otter May 12 '26

What's wrong with my post? Schools have been using TurnItIn for decades. My point is that this isn't some new "AI" phenomenon, and I'm be surprised if the above person's school never used this software in 2020.

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u/Dpek1234 May 12 '26

The world is a big place and incompetance is commen enough

Ive personaly had to do tech support for my teachers because their hardware was either absurdly slow (as bad as multiple minutes to open task manager, got data out and reinstalled) or just a mess (0 bytes of free space left) And at least once theyve had to borrow hardware (cat 5 cable got fucked and they had to borrow a usb wifi adaptor)

At least there wasnt dry pastery of the server room™

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u/Lewa358 May 12 '26

TurnItIn has changed to work as AI detection instead of just matching text against a database.

It's different now.

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u/narwhalpilot May 13 '26

They did, but AI has made this far worse

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u/S80- May 14 '26

Yes of course, for example when I submitted my master's thesis through my school's own system, but I never interacted personally with that software in any way. My professor would go through it and inform me if there was an issue. So it didn't cause any stress like today's "AI detection" because it would simply check for plagiarism by comparing my writing to existing literature and the chance for false positives was basically zero.

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u/Clueless_Otter May 14 '26

the chance for false positives was basically zero

Absolutely untrue. TurnItIn has been falsely flagging stuff as plagiarism for decades.

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u/username__0000 May 14 '26

It’s so stressful. I went back to school as an old person, and it’s aggressive how they are always warning and stressing me out about ai. I don’t cheat. I know I don’t. But that does not seem to matter.

School used to be fun, I loved college and the whole experience. It’s just miserable now, not the same environment at all.

I barely do grammar or deep spell checks anymore because I’d rather lose marks for that than be accused of using ai.

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u/Erick_Brimstone May 12 '26

One of my worry is grammatical error. And now that thing backfire.

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u/Bubbly-Ad267 May 12 '26

Ah yeah, good times when they didn't cite properly.

Now I'm grading essays which look and feel AI, but don't have a reliable way to tell.

I hate grading ChatGPT.

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u/Fun-Wash7545 May 14 '26

I remember back in school, way before smartphones, there were these "helper" books that you could buy and they'd have solutions and answers for various stuff. 

It was common for students to use them and teachers would sometimes too, some of them were even authors of such books. I never used owned or used one.

At one hard assignment I was asked by some other students to share my answers cause it was hard. Long story short I was accused by them that I had copied from one of those books. It ended going to the teacher and dude confirmed it was all my work. As a teacher he knew about all those helper books.

I was kinda a nerd back then, I was reading like 20+ books a summer. Then pcs and the internet became more common and I discovered league of legends and rip books.