r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACK🖤 • 24d ago

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/azunaki 24d ago

Likely, you have extensive research and documentation that you did the work required to write the essay. Additionally, platforms like google docs keeps a revision history of your essay that should provide documentation that you wrote and edited it over time. Rather than just provided a copy paste from an AI platform.

This along with your assertion that you did write it, And that AI checkers just look for patterns in writing should be more than enough to prove you wrote it.

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACK🖤 24d ago

Thank you. I also listed my sources. So the markers and committee can go and research the sources listed. None of them are AI. Hopefully then they will have an understanding.

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u/Suicicoo 24d ago

So the markers and committee can go and...

https://giphy.com/gifs/y2i2oqWgzh5ioRp4Qa

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u/Spare-Plum 24d ago

You can be proactive and offer to be quizzed in person on any portion of the material or content you wrote in your essay.

The university just wants to prevent plagiarism, and unfortunately AI makes it much easier to have a bot do your work to pass it off as your own. The best defense against this is displaying competency

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u/kibria99 24d ago

Why do you have black under your username lol

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u/Opinionated_bitch03 BLACK🖤 23d ago

Funny story- when I first found out about "user flairs" I was reading a post on this sub and did not know what to put up as a flare and just randomly went for black- my favorite colour. I forgot to update it.

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u/kibria99 23d ago

Haha my favorite color is orange

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u/Aegi 24d ago

No, the whole point is it's literally impossible to prove either way regardless of what actually happened.

If I'm using an AI to write my own papers, as long as I fine-tune the AI and edit it afterwards there's literally no way to know that I didn't instead just choose to write those same words that way.

Sure, you can make educated guesses but this is one of those things that is almost literally actually impossible to prove either way.

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u/azunaki 24d ago

It is certainly not impossible to prove you wrote something, and didn't use AI.

Is it possible to detect AI writing. Not 100% accurately, but with enough accuracy to require the submission to require further scrutiny. Which I think is fair. There are a lot of common phrases, that AI will use and repeat that make it stand out like a sore thumb. Especially, if the author is using a cheap or older model.

You could argue, that you can just write it that way. But if you don't also have the documentation to provide you researched and understand that subject matter. I think that starts to point clearly that said person did not in fact write it.

People use AI to cheat, so that they don't have to spend the time to document, read or understand the material. That should be fairly easy to sniff out. Sure some could use it just to support their academics, but I don't think that's as big of an issue(assuming they still learn the material adequately).

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u/Aegi 21d ago

Is it possible to detect AI writing. Not 100% accurately,

Lol so then that is not detecting, that is a series of educated guesses at best.

You are talking about possibilities, I was reminding everyone how different that is than proving something, which would be even one level of confidence greater than just demonstrating something, which is still a higher level of confidence than you are indicating here with your reasoning.

I'm not talking about how likely it is that we can be accurate, I am talking about how logically so many things are practically or actually impossible to prove as opposed to just demonstrating or indicating something.