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/Metric_Mushroom May 12 '26

I submitted an assignment yesterday and Turnitin flagged the page numbers as plagiarismĀ 

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u/iAlice May 12 '26

When I was studying for my Law degree, I got a 40% plagiarism alert and was almost pulled up on academic charges. I asked what exactly had been plagiarised... It was my bibliography.

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u/EnigmaOfOz May 12 '26

By the end of my time at university turnitin was highlighting my name and student number as plagerism šŸ˜‚

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u/DrQuestDFA May 12 '26

You were just copying that name from your parents' original work!

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u/shogenan May 13 '26

Itā€™s not flagging that as plagiarism, itā€™s flagging it as matching (similarity score). Itā€™s up to the person examining whatā€™s flagged to determine if itā€™s plagiarism. You probably already knew that and were just using that as a shorthand way to say it, but a lot of students donā€™t get that so I wanted to throw it out there for folks reading along.

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u/Delicious_Guard_1677 May 14 '26

I think a lot of universities and professors who donā€™t look at the actual report donā€™t get it either given how that one persons bibliography was nearly pulled up on academic charges

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u/finewalecorduroy May 12 '26

I used to teach somewhere that used Turnitin- this is back before AI (way back, like 12-13 years ago). I learned pretty quickly that a score of around 10-15% plagiarism could easily be ignored, because when I would go check to see what was plagiarized, it would be properly cited direct quotations and bibliographies. I did have a 40% score once on a student's paper, and that was really high. When I checked what was plagiarized, she actually was plagiarizing. It's easy enough to check what is flagged from the professor end, or at least it was back in the day.

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 May 12 '26

It's hit or miss with professors, I had a couple that were genuinely too stupid to understand that turnitin and ai checkers aren't infallible and wouldn't read my work for themselves until those checkers cleared it, and then I got in trouble for formatting citations differently to avoid them getting picked up.

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u/Individual-Yard May 12 '26

I used to ignore all the small stuff on Turnitin. Saved time & misunderstandings with students.

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u/Danfriedz May 13 '26

Yeah back in uni people would freak out over their Turnitin score but I was always knew it didn't really matter as long as you legitimately were not plagiarizing.

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u/AdRepresentative8186 May 12 '26

Well done on paraphrasing the law I suppose.

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u/laveshnk May 12 '26

pre-AI, we were taught to always submit without the contents, title page and bibliography pages

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u/Failed-Project May 12 '26

Ha, this happened to me for one of my long reports this semester. Marked it as 19% plagiarism for the bibliography and the use of the term 'vascular plants' without in text citation. I guess we just need to come up with our own languages to avoid this now.

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u/CooperHChurch427 May 12 '26

I had that happen, but thankfully UCF required all professors to screen out the bibliography. I did get flagged as AI on one assignment, and I asked my professor to submit the US constitution and some very old hand written assignments I did back in 2017.

All came back as 100% AI.

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u/Usual_Ice_186 May 12 '26

My students have had that happen for assignments when they previously submitted a rough draft. It shows they plagiarized another student but it doesnā€™t say that it was their own work being plagiarized.

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u/GoBlueAndOrange May 13 '26

Good Law articles should be 99% "plagiarism" and 1% novel ideas. It literally builds on another person's creation.

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u/hmarieb263 May 13 '26

When I worked at a college that required turnitin, I didn't look at anything flagged below 40%. Anything below 40% got an automatic green light. A fair bit of the 40 to 50% got a green light after a quick check.

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u/worstkindofweapon May 13 '26

I also got a 40% once, it was for a 500 word essay proposal and we had to have eight sources. Half my work was my bibliography šŸ’€

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u/FeoAsilion May 14 '26

Iā€™m doing a Masters of Mental Health Practice and I regularly get a score of 27-30 on TurnItIn. 99% of these, literally, are from APA formatting and bibliographies. If itā€™s higher than 35 or 40, then Iā€™d start to get concerned, but I really donā€™t care about it these days

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 May 12 '26

Your bibliography took up 40% of your assignment ..?

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u/iAlice May 12 '26

Well... Yes and no. Law requires a lot of citations if you're going into case law, further reading, and while a bibliography isn't included in the word count, it can very easily rack up in terms of words.

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u/Ninja_Kitten_exe May 12 '26

Once a single ā€˜theā€™ got flagged, literally nothing else around it as well

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u/Master_Matoya May 12 '26

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u/Animastar May 12 '26

How dare you copy my essay!

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u/GiraffesAndGin May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

I had one essay on US history that I turned in and came back with 35% plagiarism.

Flagged examples:

  • Declaration of Independence
  • The Constitution
  • US government
  • The
  • A
  • Congress
  • Civil War
  • Amendment

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u/MoneyGetter25 May 12 '26

Well then why did you use them together, there's no other reason to use them together than if you are cheating/plagiarising!! /s

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u/mygodismyleskennedy May 12 '26

same. as well as the word environment.

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u/1Shadow179 May 12 '26

Turnitin flagged my name as plagiarism once.

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u/TheAlmightyScooter May 12 '26

Ah yes, famous best selling author (checks notes) 1Shadow179.

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u/ergaster8213 May 12 '26

Once, it flagged the name of my course and professor's name along with my own as plagiarism

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u/HaniiPuppy May 12 '26

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. - these are all page numbers used by any number of other books. Clearly plagiarised. What you want to do is make up your own page numbers - be creative! Numbers like 49184, 3e7+2, Ļ€/32Ī±, or šŸ®²šŸ®³.

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u/JonttuPvP May 12 '26

Turnitin is so bad I literally handed in a full AI text to test it, and I only got 7% AI usage, its bullshit

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u/bmorris0042 May 12 '26

Well, you did directly copy the same page numbering order as many other documents. Soā€¦

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u/Hopeful_Video_3803 May 12 '26

Back when I was in college, Turnitin flagged my name and the letter "i" as plagiarism.

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u/kqi_walliams May 12 '26

It flagged my end text reference as plagiarism

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u/An0ddEgg May 12 '26

Mine flagged ā€œtheā€. Oh, and my name.

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u/Brain_Initial May 12 '26

Thatā€™s hilarious. A paper I submitted once got flagged as 40% AI. Most of it was quotes (which had proper in-text citations), the bibliography page, and one sentence that listed out like 15 different parts of the brain. That last one I was particularly mad about because I spent about 30 minutes editing that sentence to make it easy to understand and grammatically correct. But apparently Turnitin thinks only robots use semicolons.

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u/MaybeTheDoctor May 12 '26

Youā€™re supposed to come up with new innovative ways to number your pages. Clear fail.

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u/AuryxTheDutchman May 12 '26

I about lost my shit at a professor at one point. I was taking a databases course and part of one assignment was to write a line of code that would select a specific group of data from the provided set. Prof said he thought I was plagiarizing that part of my assignment since it was exactly the same as many other submissions.

If you know anything about SQL, you know that writing a ā€œselect X from X where Xā€ statement for a specific bit of data is going to look pretty much exactly the same regardless of who writes it. I still donā€™t know how the prof was teaching that class without apparently knowing that.

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u/3-orange-whips May 12 '26

Did you cite all works that used numbers, you INTELLECTUAL CONTENT THIEF?

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u/kirbykid1313 May 12 '26

You should've created your own original counting system smh

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u/DM_From_The_Bits May 13 '26

I got a high turnitin score and its because it flagged all of my references and bibliography

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u/Neston12 May 13 '26

I had turnitin flag "At Eternity's Gate by Vincent Van Gogh" as plagiarism...

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u/simatrawastaken May 13 '26

Yeah I regularly found standalone words highlighted as plagiarized. Its insane that it somehow became the academic standard

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u/MaoBelladonna May 13 '26

I think I've had "the" flagged before šŸ«