Why did Copyleaks flag my assignment as 100% matching after I used ChatGPT to rephrase it?
I’m actually freaking out right now because my assignment got flagged as 100% matching in Copyleaks, and I don’t know how bad this is.
It was a group assignment, and honestly, the grammar in some sections was pretty rough. I should have given myself more time to go through everyone’s work, but I left it until the last minute. I ended up putting the text into ChatGPT to rephrase it and then blindly copied the rewritten version into our document without really putting it into my own words.
Now Copyleaks is showing 100% matching. Just to be clear, it says 100% matching, not 100% AI, and I’m confused about what that actually means.
Does it mean the text matches something already in its database, or could it be referring to something else? I know using ChatGPT to rewrite the group’s work probably wasn’t the best decision, especially since I didn’t check the output properly.
I’m worried that my professor will think I copied someone else’s work or deliberately tried to pass off AI writing as my own. Has anyone had a Copyleaks report show 100% matching like this? What did the percentage actually mean in your case, and what happened afterward?