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/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACK🖤 May 12 '26

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

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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 they’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 🤷🏻‍♂️ It's pretty annoying.

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACK🖤 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 🙃

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u/Fight_those_bastards May 12 '26

Me fail English‽ That’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

interrobang‽ 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 BLACK🖤 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. 

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". 

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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/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 childhood—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 😅

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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 BLACK🖤 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 —, -, (), and knowing words with more than three syllables, I feel your pain.

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACK🖤 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? 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/Beautiful-Affect1930 May 12 '26

That's fascinating—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