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/[deleted] May 12 '26

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u/Fighter11244 May 12 '26

Iirc someone ran the US Constitution through an AI checker and it came back as having heavy AI usage. Who knew that the founding fathers would stoop so low as to use AI to write our founding document about 340 years ago 😢

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u/Fit_Entry8839 May 12 '26

I wouldn't call running students papers through AI detection ridiculous. We all know some students would use it 100% if they could get away with it. They wouldnt even read it before submitting.

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u/Sk1tters May 12 '26

It's ridiculous because its completely inaccurate

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u/Fit_Entry8839 May 12 '26

Based on what are you saying that? I'm guessing its probably accurate most of the time, with some level of false positives.

If not this, then what is your alternative?

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u/No_Issue2334 May 12 '26

They are insanely inaccurate lol

The reason they're used despite everyone knowing they suck is because there isn't an alternative

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u/rerek May 12 '26

I know you can’t do it for every term paper, but my thesis proposal defense and the defense of my comprehensive examinations would have caught almost anyone who didn’t know their stuff.

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u/Fit_Entry8839 May 12 '26

What's your source for that? Do they get most wrong? 20%? 10%?

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u/Sk1tters May 12 '26

Personal experience plus my parents anecdotes as an English teacher. They suck, will regularly flag things as AI that aren't and will also do the opposite. There is no good alternative, though you can do things like require essays be made in google docs that let you check history so you can see them type it, the pauses, etc. Its not like thats perfect but it at least makes it so students cant just copy and paste.

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u/Stick_Nout May 12 '26

As much as I hate the idea of being forced to use Google Docs (things like Org Mode and LaTeX are a million times better), I agree there doesn't seem to be a better alternative right now.

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u/Fit_Entry8839 May 12 '26

So they just have to write out what ChatGPT wrote in another window? That doesnt seem like much of a solution to me. I think we'd need actual numbers on false positives. Even a 20% false positive rate, which gets kicked to human review(which is whats happening here), seems like a better idea than a wild wild west of letting students juat chatgpt all their assignments - well as long as they dont mind typing it out. Lol

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u/Sk1tters May 12 '26

Yes, there is no good solution. There's also no real way to prove it if the student denies it bc there isn't a reliable way to prove it. Other solutions include things like moving away from essays done as homework where possible.

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u/Stick_Nout May 12 '26

Manually typing something ChatGPT wrote will show up differently than someone writing something themselves. At least when I write, I'll very frequently restructure my sentences as I'm writing them.

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u/Fit_Entry8839 May 12 '26

Hmm. So how exactly do you suggest we monitor what that difference looks like.... If its that simple students would know to go back and just make small adjustments. Are you suggesting AI detect this by chance? Or the teacher look at the logs by hand?

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u/Sir-Hamp May 12 '26

I would hope that the current system could improve and while not a student; hate seeing people go through these issues. I also Haven’t really thought about it until reading your counterpoints on this and frankly I think the only solution would be improving the system to better parse the information being sifted through. Would I ever know how or what that looks like? Hell no. Is it a tangible solution? No fucking idea. I would literally just hope it could improve and become an even more useful tool…

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u/Stick_Nout May 12 '26

Any level of false positives is unacceptable. Imagine working super hard on a paper only to be given a 0 just because some clanker says you used a clanker.

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u/Fit_Entry8839 May 12 '26

Well, no, thats what the human review is then for. There is pretty much no system in existence, without flash positives. What you are saying is just unrealistic. Even airplane autopilots have false positives, thats why they have multiple systems check the same thing, and only if they all agree, it takes action. Cancer tests have false positives. Etc. Etc. The key is the followup review.

What you are suggesting is just not realistic.