r/TurnitinAIResults

writing an essay in university is just an exercise in shared delusion. u sit there eating a pop tart at 2 AM, treating your document like a masterpiece, consulting three different sources just to find the perfect adjective, and formatting your citations like you are submitting to a nobeelll.. And your professor is just going to open the file while watching Netflix, scroll straight to the bottom, check the word count, and type "Good effort. B- “

We are being penalized for using the correct technical definitions because an algorithm thinks we should have found a "more creative" way to express a 100-year-old theorem. It’s reaching a point where you have to choose between being scientifically accurate and passing a similarity check.

Now the universities should not blame us for using AI to write essays..😂😂because what is this?!!

It is wild to see the shift in how universities handle academic integrity. A few years ago, missing a citation meant you were sitting in front of a review board facing immediate expulsion. Now, the official documentation literally states that the detectors they pay for are "hardly ever accurate" and suggests professors just "have a conversation" with the student instead. they know the software is broken and produces false positives constantly, but they keep it integrated into the submission portals just to act as a scare tactic. It is exhausting having to defend your own original work against a system the university already knows is flawed.

I was in the middle of a class, and the professor tried to open canvas to show us the materials and stuff for the upcoming final project. And it was AWKWARD. We had no full idea that it was because of a hack. He did mention that he would go back and check if an extension for the assignments is needed. And he did us a break.

I feel like i witnessed history lol. Did this happen to any of you guys?