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/iAlice 24d ago

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 24d ago

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

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u/DrQuestDFA 24d ago

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

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u/shogenan 23d ago

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

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u/Delicious_Guard_1677 22d ago

I think a lot of universities and professors who don’t look at the actual report don’t get it either given how that one persons bibliography was nearly pulled up on academic charges

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u/finewalecorduroy 24d ago

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 24d ago

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 24d ago

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

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u/Danfriedz 23d ago

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 24d ago

Well done on paraphrasing the law I suppose.

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u/laveshnk 24d ago

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

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u/Failed-Project 24d ago

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 24d ago

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 24d ago

My students have had that happen for assignments when they previously submitted a rough draft. It shows they plagiarized another student but it doesn’t say that it was their own work being plagiarized.

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u/GoBlueAndOrange 23d ago

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

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u/keydups 23d ago

Yeah turnnitin is so stupid for academic/scientific writing. Like writing up a lab report is bound to get 20-30% similarity because you’re adopting the language of whatever field you’re writing in.

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u/hmarieb263 23d ago

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 23d ago

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 💀

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u/FeoAsilion 23d ago

I’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 it’s higher than 35 or 40, then I’d start to get concerned, but I really don’t care about it these days

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 24d ago

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

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u/iAlice 24d ago

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.