The unexpected downside of using template files provided by your professor
Our professor gave our engineering class a pre-formatted Word template containing the title page, lab section headers, and safety disclaimers.
Every single student who submitted their report using that mandatory template got a baseline 30%+ similarity AND a elevated AI score. The detector evaluated the mandatory boilerplate headers as machine-inserted text. Always check if your prof excluded the assignment template from the submission filter!
u/Equivalent_Case5281 — 9 days ago