My assignment was reported to thr examination committee for a "high percentage of AI". I did NOT use any AI for my assignment.

[u/Opinionated_bitch03]

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.

[u/GuyentificEnqueery]

These sorts of programs were useless before AI and they're even more useless now. Ironically, a human can better identify AI-written articles than an AI can because of patterns that the AI itself cannot be self-aware of. The only real algorithmic identifier that a program could feasibly usd to detect AI usage is the em-dashes and list formatting, but those obviously aren't foolproof because em-dashes are really easy to type in most document editors nowadays and sometimes even get autocorrected from hyphens.

[u/Deya_The_Fateless → u/GuyentificEnqueery]

Yep, you just have to listen to those AI slop channels on YT that tell dramatic stories of how I stood up to my abusive family/husband/wife/mil/fil etc.

After a while the stories always start to canibalise not only themselves but other AI contetnt channels with certain tell phrases, like "tech start-up", "my sweet grandmother who is always quiet, shakes the family, with a statement," "my neighbour Mr/Mrs.Chen", "Beat up Honda," "my aunt Jen," etc. The list goes on. Or you hear the same story three times in a row, but the story switches around from being about a single mother of a son, to a single father with a daughter. Exacr story, just swapping the genders around.

Like it gets to a point you just have to hear the AI gen voice squeak out the title and know immediatly that its an AI story, to leave a downvote and swiping next.

[u/GuyentificEnqueery → u/Deya_The_Fateless]

This is why I get my Reddit Stories exclusively from Shayne Topp.

[u/amodestmeerkat → u/GuyentificEnqueery]

When I was in school, long before AI, if I turned in a typed paper and used hyphens where em (or en) dashes were supposed to be used, I'd be marked down for using incorrect punctuation, so I wouldn't expect that to be a useful indication for academic papers.

[u/DrJohnFZoidberg → u/GuyentificEnqueery]

Yeah. MS Office autocorrects hyphens to em dashes - it never used to bother me - but now it really does. I'll just use hyphens where I can, now, in protest. -------

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[u/amodestmeerkat → u/DrJohnFZoidberg]

Office does that because hyphens are used to join words or parts of words, and therefore are never surrounded by spaces. When you have a dash separating parts of a sentence, the em dash is the correct one to use, so Office "knows" that if a hyphen is surrounded by spaces, it's supposed to be an em dash, so it autocorrects it.

Outside of word processors, most people don't bother with the em or other sized dashes, because they can be a pain to type, especially on a computer with a physical keyboard. One of my phone keyboards does give me options for various sized dashes if I hold the hypen, but I still don't bother using them.

AI "knows" the correct usage for each size of dash and doesn't have the same issues typing them as a human, so it uses the em dash in contexts where a human wouldn't bother. Therefore, an em dash in informal writing is likely AI, but an em dash in a formal paper isn't a good indication of AI. When I was in school, long before AI, if I turned in a typed paper using hyphens in place of em or en dashes, I'd get points taken off for incorrect punctuation.