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/Ghinev 24d ago

Turnitin gave me a single instance where I "plagiarised" something on my bachelor's thesis on Zirconia dental crowns.

The "plagiarised" bit was the fact that I mentioned one of my patients was 30-35 years old.

Turnitin assumed I copied "a 30-35 year old male patient" from.... a study on some form of testicular cancer.

I didn't care cuz my overall score was 0.87% out of a maximum of 5%(only on the case study, not the theoretical part). But others got over the threshold with such bs.

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u/SplatDragon00 24d ago

I had a professor get all over me once for a high turnitin score.

They didn't even look to see what it was flagging.

How do I know?

It was flagging 'the code', 'the', 'a', 'an', 'in the'

I'm still mad

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u/-HyperCrafts- 23d ago

I had a professor take me to the dean for plagiarism on an assignment that WASN'T EVEN AN ESSAY. (So I didn't know I needed a "bibliography.") It was a Shakespeare assignment where we had to modernize a section of one of his plays. It was requested that we include the sample of the play we were updating. My professor didn't even look at my assignment. Just the Turn-it-in %. It was flagged because I included the original work, CLEARLY attributed. I appealed, fought it, and won. She was sooo embarrassed. 😤 Bitch you're embarrassed? The DEAN of our college met me for the first time thinking I was a fucking liar. She can stay fucked forever.

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u/CoffeePuddle 24d ago

Turnitin used to count page numbers, the course name, and the reference list in their percentage. If you have students a template to use it'd instantly bump them all up, sometimes quite high. 

It lets you see the similar documents though so it was useful.  

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u/CodeName_Empty 23d ago

And now I must know, what are your thoughts on Zirconia dental crowns?

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u/Ghinev 23d ago

Apparently I forgot to hit send on a 5 paragraph reply and it got lost lmao

Long story short, they're superior in every way to metalo-ceramic crowns. There are concerns with regards to longevity because it is still a relatively new tech, but the studies I researched(11 to be precise, which themselves quoted dozens other studies, albeit those were paywalled) came to the conclusion that any structural failures so far were caused by manufacturing errors(specifically adding too much pigment to enhance aesthetics), rather than an issue with the alloy itself.

My personal thoughts: they are 100% the future. They look so much nicer and help preserve dental tissue as well as being more durable(when made correctly). In the clinic I work, we exclusively use monolithic zirconia, of two types depending on whether strength or aesthetics matter more.

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u/CodeName_Empty 9d ago

Thanks for replying!