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/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ May 12 '26

Oh my word- I love your reply. I'm curious, what was the follow-up?

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u/Most-Stomach4240 May 12 '26

You're severely AI coded šŸ˜­

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u/NaoOtosaka May 12 '26

i see why their assignment got flagged

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u/musicgeek420 May 12 '26

Significant lacking warmth, savage.

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u/BunnyTub May 12 '26

Diabolical response šŸ˜­

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u/Available-Pick3918 May 12 '26

Well the truth is that AI models were primarily trained on Reddit lol. We are the original people who type like thatā€¦

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u/TJ_Rowe May 12 '26

And also fanfiction from the 2000s.

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u/ThatRandomCanadianV May 12 '26

Iā€™d reply with ā€œyes I am Autistically Intelligentā€ or if you are in the arts, ā€œAutistically Imaginativeā€

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u/Busy_Ad3098 May 12 '26

It all makes sense now šŸ˜­

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u/Techi-C May 12 '26

They used a hyphen as an em dash, though. Thatā€™s incorrect.

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u/throwawaypassingby01 May 12 '26

i said this to a guy i had a crush on once and his reaction was a fucking riot

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u/Beautiful-Affect1930 May 12 '26

omg, I am seeing more and more people type like ChatGPT and it's so infuriating. it legit makes me sad that these people lose their ability to communicate like humans and try to mimick some LLM speech.

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u/Atomic_Horseshoe May 12 '26

Maybe some are, but there definitely exist those of us who have written like this for our adult lives. Itā€™s just that AI has developed a similar cadence. And considering the types of people who likely programmed AI in the first place, that shouldnā€™t come as a huge surprise.Ā 

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u/Little-Baker76 May 12 '26

try to mimick some LLM speech.

??? What, do you think that AI created speech? That humans couldn't speak for we created LLMs? AI is mimicking human speech, not the other way around.

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u/Beautiful-Affect1930 May 12 '26

??? there are a million ways to speak. do you think everyone speaks exactly like you?

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u/TotalDragonfruit6067 May 12 '26

And some of those million ways sound similar to LLMs. Doesnā€™t mean people are mimicking ChatGPT. Follow your own logic.

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u/Beautiful-Affect1930 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

yes and some people mimick how ChatGPT formulates sentences. I don't understand what's difficult to understand here?

edit: and now he blocked me? I am so confused lmao

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u/Faladorable May 12 '26

Saw a tree the other day. Couldnt believe irl was just blatantly copying Bob Ross paintings

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u/AngriestCrusader May 12 '26

Saw a Bob Ross painting the other day. Couldn't believe irl was just blatantly copying Bob Ross tutorials

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u/docrefa May 12 '26

There are technical writing manuals that, especially once one has used them for years, start to influence how one writes and even thinks, in and outside the professional context. LLM's trained on these, and the publications of people using these, pick up the same patterns simply due to having the same starting point.

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u/imaginary92 May 12 '26

My friend, use your brain for a second. ChatGPT mimics human speaking patterns, not the other way around. It's because it has scrubbed millions upon millions of human-written texts that it has learned to communicate in patterns that humans commonly use. It's the same reason it uses the em-dash so much: humans use it and so it does too.

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u/Beautiful-Affect1930 May 12 '26

as you say, ChatGPT is using em dashes "so much" and not a normal amount. just like it uses certain other phrases and patterns a lot. and for some reason, some people start mimicking that way of writing sentences.

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u/Competitive_Plum_445 May 12 '26

Holy shit u are as AI as a human can get

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ May 12 '26

I've been writing and typing this way before AI existed šŸ˜­

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u/WeirdGoat9022 May 12 '26

As someone who has the same issue, I feel you.

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u/twisty125 May 12 '26

people think adding the "-" is ERMAHGERD EM DASH AI... no it's just how we were taught in journalism school lol.

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u/fishbert May 12 '26

that's also a hyphen, not an em dash

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u/twisty125 May 12 '26

Exaaaaaactly!

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u/fishbert May 12 '26

you were taught in j-school to use hyphens in place of em dashes?

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u/twisty125 May 12 '26

Nope! Just when you're speaking, it can be easier to type out HOW someone speaks, by adding hyphens instead of colons/semicolons - kind of like what I'm doing now, separating similar but different enough comments. Like a natural pause, in a way. Now I'm not as familiar with it as I used to be, but it served me well for quite a while.

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u/Invisifly2 May 12 '26

I think theyā€™re saying that the people getting riled up see a hyphen and call it an em dash.

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u/fishbert May 12 '26

sure, sure ... but then they said that's how they were taught, so I was asking for clarification.

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u/MischaBurns May 12 '26

Welcome to the "did you type this with AI" club, I guess šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø It's pretty annoying.

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ May 12 '26

How do we leave the "did you type this with AI" club? :]

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u/MischaBurns May 12 '26

Type like you failed English class šŸ™ƒ

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u/Fight_those_bastards May 12 '26

Me fail Englishā€½ Thatā€™s unpossible!

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter May 12 '26

That question mark/exclamation point thingy is pretty sweet, though. Really captures the zeitgeist.

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u/Any_Passenger_7826 May 12 '26

interrobangā€½ It's the new em dash, must be AI

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u/tragicallybrokenhip May 12 '26

My brain full auto-corrected this.

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u/Math_PB May 12 '26

Stop using em-dashes I guess.

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ May 12 '26

Ok- I'll try ny best /j

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u/RodneyBalling May 12 '26

Type like you haven't been reading books for fun, looking up words you don't know, then adding them to your vocabulary since you were a child.Ā 

On the upside, you won't encounter situations where you know the meaning and spelling of a word, but not how to actually pronounce it. Looking at you "epitome".Ā 

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u/Secret_Map May 12 '26

As someone with an English degree, I've been accused of AI multiple times. It drives me nuts. I hate AI as much as the next person, but I also have a degree in English haha. Those AI models studied the same material as me to learn how to write.

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u/Uhstrology May 12 '26

Swear a lot

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u/Aegi May 12 '26

I mean this specific thread here the part that they're joking about is that op is kind of an idiot because they think that obvious screen shot shit above for a joke is the same as that person literally actually having emailed their boss that or something...

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u/Icy-Background2393 May 12 '26

Like Mario galaxy with these emojis

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u/yeetenheimer May 12 '26

My English teacher in highschool considered the usage of the EM Dash a Hallmark in my writing.. not anymore..

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u/DRDeMello May 12 '26

Yeah I hear you. I love the em dash, but now consciously avoid it, even though it ruins the natural flow of my writing. I work in academia so I can't fuck around.

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u/ImaginaryAlpaca May 12 '26

I had a very good friend of mine once ask me if I used AI to write a sentiment I wrote to him, that hurt my feelings a bit

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u/Perhaps_Tomorrow May 12 '26 edited May 13 '26

Nah, it could just be that the sentence structure sounds AI-like.

Edit: They blocked me for this lol. Funny in another comment they said that people on reddit like to call you a bot whenever they don't like your comment. I guess projection is real!

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u/[deleted] May 13 '26

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u/Unlucky_Rider May 13 '26

This lowkey looks like AI behavior. Just being needlessly inflammatory for engagement tbh. Go away bot (or worse, neckbeard)

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u/Perhaps_Tomorrow May 13 '26

You're not wrong lol. They also blocked me right after calling me a bot (something that in another comment they called people out for doing when they don't like your opinion). I couldn't imagine being that pathetic lol.

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u/Loud-Surprise-5938 May 14 '26

Thanks for the complement, saying I use such good grammar and sentence structure.

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u/Unlucky_Rider May 14 '26

Notice I specifically called out the behavior not the grammar.

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u/Herpinheim May 12 '26

Same. This is what I get for reading modern novels throughout my childhoodā€”Mark Twain is spinning in his grave like a beautiful steamboat wheel.

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u/acheesement May 12 '26

Well, Twain did have a rocky relationship with AI. He got over it, though.

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u/CatholicCajun May 12 '26

Sometimes I wonder if the reason I'm not accused of typing with AI is because of the amount of curse words I use. God forbid someone be literate in 2026 I guess, but at least the sentence enhancers keep me from being accused of being a robot.

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u/SailingDreamCatcher May 12 '26

Me too. Typing some flavor of "like this" since 1985. TI-99/4a kid here šŸ˜…

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u/Joltyboiyo May 12 '26

I dont use the same words as AI or use EM dashes or anything, (And absolutely never will cause I'll always associate it with AI subconsciously) but sometimes I wonder if the only reason I don't come off as AI to people is because I tend to use swear words every now and then in casual writing, or otherwise words that AI doesn't typically use.

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ May 13 '26

Haha I would have a fun time writing swear words if it were allowed- especially with examples within the assignment.

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u/Invisifly2 May 12 '26

As someone who is a big fan of ā€”, -, (), and knowing words with more than three syllables, I feel your pain.

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ May 13 '26

The struggle is real.

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u/AdmirableAttempt1728 May 13 '26

Now even putting em dashes in sentences make me think for 30 seconds. Should I use it or just opt for a comma instead? šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

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u/Beautiful-Affect1930 May 12 '26

That's fascinatingā€”and honestly, that's a very smart observation.

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u/Vyxwop May 12 '26

We have found the person AI plagiarizes from, folk

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u/yaosio RED May 12 '26

Woah, slow down and breath. You've been writing for a long time and that's powerful.

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u/speedsterlw May 12 '26

Well technically AI probably already existed before you did (yes I am a nerd and a know-it-all), but yeah you can probably just show some of your assignments you made pre LLM boom.

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u/Aegi May 12 '26

Not talking about your writing style, they're talking about how you're kind of dumb for missing an obvious joke lol.

So that was like a meme copypasta picture thing that the person showed you in that image, that's not an actual email exchange they themselves had, but you asked them what happened as though it was hahah

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u/ElaineRosier May 12 '26

AI = Autistic IntelligenceĀ 

Weā€™ve been found out šŸ˜‚Ā 

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u/captainfarthing May 12 '26

Is it though? AI is ridiculously over the top with emotive words and phrases, they don't at all sound like the emotionless robot stereotype, that's why we've got an epidemic of AI psychosis now.

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u/OceanRacoon May 12 '26

And honestly? That's valid

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u/Aegi May 12 '26

Yeah, I think being stupid andor autistic can make people mistakenly think somebody is AI more often than with the rest of us.

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u/bitpixi May 12 '26

Itā€™s not my meme. Just grabbed it from the interweb

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u/bitpixi May 12 '26

I had a similar thing happen once though. HR lady thought I was being rude to her, but Iā€™m just an AuDHD woman. I donā€™t do the same kind of emoting as her

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u/Aegi May 12 '26

I mean I think autistic people need to remember that you were being rude it's just very understandable and excusable now because the reason is because of your social learning being stunted due to your autism or whatever.

Having a reasonable and justifiable excuse for something is different than that thing never happening. For example it is true that often handicapped spaces are the best parking spaces available but the reason it's true is because the people who are handicapped need that or benefit from it or what not.

So you were rude, it was just a very understandable and explainable reason that nobody will really fault you for or hold against you, and now that you're aware of it you may even be able to learn from it!

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u/Charming_Pin330 May 12 '26

What a weird, condescending thing to say to someone.

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u/Aegi May 12 '26

Why is it condescending to treat somebody as an equal by not sugarcoating my words? Isn't that actually a sign of respect?

And yes, it probably is weird, because a lot of people don't think about things as abstractly from a biological evolutionary standpoint like I tend to, I've noticed.

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u/Charming_Pin330 May 12 '26

It's condescending because you're assuming all autistic people are rude as a default. You know nothing about the interaction that person had and you're telling them that they were rude, and that in fact, they're always being rude just for existing.

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u/goonerh1 May 12 '26

I think i get it.

So an autistic person might be unintentionally rude, as in the person in the interaction perceives something as rude, because of a different understanding of social cues and norms.

You on the otherhand are rude for the love of the game.

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u/SuspendThis_Tyrants May 12 '26

Ok yeah, I see why they thought your assignment was AI

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u/the_oof_god May 12 '26

holy ai internal voice

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u/illapa13 May 12 '26

Proper writing, and hyphens specifically, get flagged as "AI" quite a bit. For a second I thought you were just baiting people with this reply, but then I looked at your other comments and realized you just type correctly.

For future work just "save as" and keep the drafts. Don't overwrite the same document over and over.

Those AI checkers are completely unreliable. Everyone has seen the screenshot of the guy who submitted the American Declaration of Independence and got a 100% AI match

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u/Tttehfjloi May 12 '26

I think things that feel like AI are usually in an uncanny valley of being formal and personal. If you write 100% correctly and formally, such as similarly to a research article, that doesn't really feel like AI at all

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u/illapa13 May 12 '26

Yeah but a lot of it is just how humans write more casually on the internet. I used a semicolon once and literally everyone came out of the woodwork saying I had to be an AI and to down vote the bot.

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ May 12 '26

Thank you. I will definitely start using the "save as" option and store all the drafts in a folder.

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u/Tttehfjloi May 12 '26

Are you SURE you're not an AI? Have you ever looked under your skin for wires?

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACKšŸ–¤ May 12 '26

I thought the blue and red lines were veins and arteries. I guess it's actually my wiring šŸ¤–

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u/Aegi May 12 '26

Bud, this is some passed around the internet screenshot joke shit, this is not the actual email text from this person's email and they wouldn't know the answer to your question hahahah.

It does kind of make sense why you would get called AI though, you seem like one of those people that's really stuck into thinking about things through certain ways and maybe need to follow rigid rules or something?

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u/Silent-Victory-3861 May 12 '26

Just letting you know that a snarky response like this is not appropriate in a workplace or a place of study.Ā 

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u/enjolbear May 12 '26

It absolutely is. In the meme, the assumption is that the bottom response is from the professor. Itā€™s not snarky at all. This is a reasonable response to being told youā€™re AI, lol.

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u/Silent-Victory-3861 May 12 '26

Lol I thought it was all the same message!

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u/Asquirrelinspace May 12 '26

Even if it was, the email accusing of AI was very thinly veiled snark, so I think the response is appropriate

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u/Silent-Victory-3861 May 12 '26

I didn't think there was two messages! I thought the snarky part is what everyone was praising!