u/Secret_Fun4607

I've been seeing more discussions about students changing perfectly normal academic writing because they're worried about getting flagged by Turnitin.

The weirdest part isn't even the obvious ChatGPT-generated stuff. It's students who write their own papers but deliberately remove transition words, simplify their vocabulary, and make every sentence sound the same because some AI checker says their writing looks AI-generated.

Imagine being afraid to use words like "furthermore" or "consequently" in a college essay because a free AI detector might flag them. 😭

At this point, are we teaching students to write well, or teaching them to make their writing look less suspicious to a machine?

I'm curious whether professors and students are actually seeing this happen in introductory courses, especially with Turnitin AI scores and false positives. Is this becoming a real problem, or are people overreacting to the detectors?

It's not even a mode at this point. It's the default setting..

Are students dumbing down their writing because they're scared of Turnitin's AI detector?