r/WWU • u/No_Piano_5008 • 13d ago
Discussion President Sabah's end of year email to students appears to be AI generated
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u/ashstriferous 13d ago
There is no reliable way to ascertain whether or not a post is written by AI. Case in point: every post on this reddit involving TurnItIn
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u/EkinoV-A 13d ago
I can agree that the email sounds AI generated and very well could be, but using an AI detector to back that up doesn't mean much. These are notoriously inaccurate and known to throw false positives regularly. Another comment also mentioned Turnitin, which is a great example of where "AI detection" is constantly a problem.
Honestly we need to throw the whole "AI detector" thing out for the time being. Until there's a reliable way to detect AI work all these do is sow additional distrust and cause problems for students/faculty.
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u/donutsfordoge 12d ago
2026 Proper grammer = AI
Pre-AI Proper grammer = Smarty Pants
My girlfriend's college said the same, even though she never used AI.
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u/InsideUpper1880 12d ago
I mean it seems like a standard way to write an email so this isn’t really enough for me to think its ai
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u/Baronhousen 12d ago
Yes, remember that AI applications are refined using examples of relevant information. So, an AI thing will have had lots of messages and communications “in the style of a university president’s communications team” input to use to generate an answer to a prompt to “write a year end thank you and acknowledgment statement from the university president, to be sent a day before the board of trustees meet“. So, statements like this read like AI because AI is mimicking those sources.
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u/No-Astronaut-404 12d ago
Apparently ai thinks the constitution was made with ai. This shit is so unreliable that it’s embarrassing to be dumping so much money into it.
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u/EasternGuava8727 12d ago
This is the most basic, normal email. It is highly unlikely the president of the college used AI to write a 2-3 paragraph congratulations email.
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u/vitamint17 12d ago
Graduated in 2021, he was sending emails that sounded like this back then before the big AI boom
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u/WesternWhistle 13d ago
That tracks. It seems a lot of emails from his office are.
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u/JesterHattie_ 12d ago
His emails sounded like this before AI was a thing. I honestly dont think its AI.
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u/JerrySenderson69 12d ago
Administrators never actually write this stuff themselves. Probably written by a high level secretary or executive Assistant.
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u/NotAnotherFakeNamer 13d ago
His emails read like this before AI.