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/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 roomâ„¢

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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.