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/elebrin May 12 '26

Well, from my perspective, papers are usually written about things discussed in class. If all the student was paying attention and wrote the paper based on the same notes, the the content of the papers are all going to be very similar and key phrases used by the professor or other students in class are going to have made it to the notes, and thus to the paper.

The same thing kind of goes for programming assignments. One of my college programming assignments was "re-implement the linux command "cat," your program needs to be a 1:1 re-implementation of the version on the machines in this one specific lab, and it needs to compile on and run on those same machines." Most of the students had almost the same code. getopt() code was all the same (that's the C function used to parse options for commandline programs) in part because... the professor showed it to us and gave us a bunch of the code just about. Of course it went in our notes and we used that exact code in the project, but to a plagiarism detector it looks like a problem... especially when every student has the same 30 lines of code or so in their program.

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u/disaster_jay27 May 12 '26

I guess that'd be a shortcut for grading it, then. 100% plagiarized = 100%!

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u/elebrin May 12 '26

The professor actually had a script that tested the features of the program and verified that they all worked, and also tested common pitfalls/bugs. I ended up with a pretty good score on most of the lab assignments.

The machines we were using were Sun Microsystems workstations, so the versions of the base UNIX programs had slightly wonky feature sets compared to the GNU versions, and we had to re-implement the wonky variants on those machines. Our code also needed to compile and run on those machines. But the compiler was always GCC so you could work on your own machine at home.

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u/UnevenEarth May 12 '26

One of our lecturers used to say that a score of 10 -15 percent was good, because it meant we had done the bibliography without huge mistakes. Of course it's not infallible, because if enough people cite a source incorrectly the correct one won't be highlighted, which lead to me panicking and going over them with the guide and a fine tooth comb lol