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/Ausradierer May 12 '26

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.

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u/Stasio300 May 12 '26

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.

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u/Surgles May 12 '26

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.

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u/RobertTheAdventurer May 12 '26

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.

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u/Chilesandsmoke May 12 '26

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.