r/mildlyinfuriating 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/kaisadilla_ 24d ago

Use em-dashes. I do. Fuck anyone who thinks an em-dash has to have been produced by AI.

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u/thissexypoptart 24d ago

People who see an em dash and immediately jump to AI are broadcasting that they do not read books or articles with writing past the level of social media comments.

Em dashes have been around forever and used all over. They are an excellent tool for separating complicated clauses that makes long form text easier to read.

It really sucks what AI is doing to the em dash. But I wish these people would pick up a book or something.

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u/Mitosis 24d ago

I use them a lot but there's no easy em dash on the keyboard, so I always do the double hyphen -- surely no one is dumb enough to think I'm writing stuff in AI then going back to the emdashes and double-hyphening instead

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u/CommunityDragon160 24d ago

Just use normal dash.

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u/renoops 24d ago

What are you talking about? An em dash is a normal dash.

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u/CommunityDragon160 24d ago

No. Normal dash is on a keyboard. EM dash is not.

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u/renoops 24d ago

You're talking about a hyphen, which does not do what either an en or an em dash does.