r/TurnitinAI_detector

I spent 3 days writing a research paper, manually finding sources, and carefully editing my syntax to sound formal.

Turnitin's verdict? 45% AI-generated. > Apparently, using "Furthermore," "In contrast," and "Therefore" means I have the soul of a robotic parrot. Am I supposed to start intentionally adding typos and grammatical disasters just to prove my humanity to a software algorithm?

At the end of the semester I was faced with a student who wrote a paper side by side with my tutors in the student success center. I ran it through MS Word -> Editor similarity detector (which is not an AI detector) as a check against the Canvas "Turn it in" add on ap.

I was led to the Schmoop website. It's a Cliff Notes type site and it's history extends before the use of AI, but also the way Schmoop is designed is flagging papers as AI or it's passages as simliair in AI plagiarism checks.

Example - "Girl" is a common piece of literature used. Schmoop has PAGES on "Girl" and because it claims it uses human writers to write in a "Fun, youth oriented voice" it is not only flagging content students right as copied, but it ALSO features common assignments in standard college level Lit curriculum.

It features quotes, discussions on all aspects of common assignments, and if Schmoop had parsed the last 15 years of the assignments based on "Girl" it would properly explain why their pages are so extensive and complete.

STILL because of it's content its triggering Turn It In. And Editor. And hitting students hard with accusations of plagiarism.

Anyone else see this?