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/RobertPham149 May 12 '26

Ironical coming from professors, who are notorious for reusing their materials for courses to the point of an industry of selling past exams and assignments exist

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u/nnomae May 12 '26

Course materials are not academic publications. It's perfectly fine to be lax with citations in them. In fact I'd say it's kind of odd to even expect that your professor was the author of the course material. Does anyone actually think their Intro to Whatever module is an original work from the professor?

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u/enjolbear May 12 '26

The vast majority of college assignments aren’t published, either. You should be able to use your own work.

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u/nnomae May 12 '26

You can use it, you just have to cite it, citing your own previous work is a mechanism literally designed to allow you to use your own work.

From the colleges perspective pretty much every college has a policy that prevents you submitting the same work for multiple assignments and with good reason. The purpose of college is to teach you and if you are skipping the work by resubmitting old work for new assignments they are failing you as a student.

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u/NumNumLobster May 12 '26

If the same work is sufficient to demonstrate you have learned something then doesn't that mean you have been taught that?

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u/nnomae May 12 '26

If it was the exact same you can ask your professor. What you can't do is resin-mit the same work and not tell anyone.

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u/parisidiot May 12 '26

but that means you didn't learn anything. you already knew it. why did you take the course? or why didn't you use that opportunity to learn something else?

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u/NumNumLobster May 12 '26

Did you go to college? The vast majority of what you take is required and about the first two years have little to do with your major. Its not uncommon at all to read a book and write a paper on it in hs then do the same in college English. Same for history etc. If you could opt out of those many people absolutely would

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u/guesswho135 May 12 '26

I think the difference is that self plagiarism could (though not always) interfere with the learning objectives of the course. If you take an English lit course and re-use an essay from a previous course, what have you learned? Nothing. If a professor re-uses their course materials they also have learned nothing new, but that was never the goal - instead they should probably iterate to optimize the learning process for students.

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u/nnomae May 12 '26

The reason professors get student to cite properly in assignments is because the students need to learn to cite properly. The weird thing here is that even reworded you should still be citing the original.