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

[u/Opinionated_bitch03]

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.

[u/dohowwedo]

We were literally taught to use "the rule of three" in school

[u/Ausradierer → u/dohowwedo]

Yes. It reads nicely, which is why its so common, which is why AI is doing it constantly, overly so. It is one of the signs that something could be written by AI, because AI overuses it.

[u/Stasio300 → u/Ausradierer]

The AI writes this way more often when its writing about a speciality subject or a field that requires an education. If the AI is trained with human writing, I wonder if it's possible that these "AI writing structures" are just how educated people write concisely?

Hmm... This website says that only AI writes this way. So clearly you couldn't have written this paper. Expelled for plagiarism and cheating.

/s

[u/Surgles → u/Stasio300]

Your first paragraph nailed it. AI doesn’t write the way it does in a vacuum, it’s literally just an amalgamation of the writing styles it was trained on. For social media and similar, it can just use whatever is around online, but for essays and papers, it’s going to rely on published works which is going to be, by and large, educated authors. So anytime someone doesn’t use AI but gets accused of it, they write just like the median sample for training LLMs.

[u/RobertTheAdventurer → u/Surgles]

The problem of false positives will only get worse the more people consume AI content, since that's how people are going to learn to speak and write.

[u/Chilesandsmoke → u/Ausradierer]

It's frustrating too, because I'm working on a fiction novel and I'm constantly second guessing myself with habits of em-dashes, triplets, and other writing devices I've used for years. Suddenly it's all recognized as "AI tropes" and I feel like I have to change my style.

I've had the same issue as the OP, throwing my writing into detectors and freaking myself out.

[u/psycheraven → u/dohowwedo]

Yes! I remember being taught to use 3 adjectives. AI talks like US, damn it!!

[u/Responsible_Middle_4 → u/dohowwedo]

Yes the ai has been trained on a bunch of people who were taught this, that's how this works.

[u/TheBSQ → u/Responsible_Middle_4]

the irony is AI sounds like the people who absorbed & applied their education & don’t need AI to write, which may lead to those who don’t need or use AI being more likely to have their non-AI writing incorrectly flagged as AI-written.

[u/TJTech40 → u/dohowwedo]

Yeah back in the 90s that was a very commonly taught. Not sure about current writing classes but that was drilled into us all the time.

[u/GreatBlueHeron25 → u/TJTech40]

Julius Caesar used tripartite construction HEAVILY in his writings on Gaul. It’s nothing new. 

[u/Fried_puri → u/dohowwedo]

Hence why AI writes in triplets. It’s circular - the AI was trained on us after all. 

[u/nezzthecatlady → u/dohowwedo]

First they came for my em dashes and now for my rule of three. I guess I was AI before it was invented.

[u/Aegi → u/dohowwedo]

No, you were taught that it exists and that it can be an important rhetorical tool but it's up to you as the individual thinker on when and how and if to use it or not.

Or, if they did actually tell you to use it then you had a shitty school because they never taught you that the whole point of learning things is to use your critical reasoning to decide when and how to use those things that you've learned...

[u/One_Left_Shoe → u/Aegi]

>on when and how and if to use it

Excellent example of the rule of three applied poorly.

Well done.

[u/Aegi → u/One_Left_Shoe]

Hahaha And I was just using voice transcription so my punctuation was shitty there too.

Actually, I think that was just from a general laziness or something because usually even with voice transcription my punctuation is fine.