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Might be doing a masters next year and god I hope that isnt a problem. Im sure it will be, but one can hope
Personally, if I had that shit pulled on me, I would probably demand to know their process of grading papers. Because from what I've been reading, a lot of teachers and lecturers are starting to use AI tools to assist them.
And as far as I'm concerned, if I have paid an absolute fucking fortune to be there and be taught by human beings, I'm expecting them to actually do their fucking jobs and not hand it off to Elon Musk's plagiarist CP machine. Especially if they're going to be going around accusing students of using AI.
My mother is a professor and hates AI. She works at a community college and the amount of shit she has to go through is unbelievable. Her college actively pushes her to use AI but she doesn't whenever possible. She's struggling with AI more than any other person I know of.
Teachers are rarely the problem.
I never had a problem with ratings over 50%. My writing seems to be especially prone to false positives, but I still didn't receive higher than 20-30%. Unfortunately, at my school, anything over 0% was considered suspect, so I was still penalised even if it was clearly human-written with full APA sourcing.
I'm starting a master's in a few weeks, and because most of the courses involve group work, I'm concerned about someone in my group sinking a project for everyone else by using an LLM for their portion.
And given the program, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more than a few AI boosters in the courses who will try it, above the normal number of such people you might find in postgrad studies.
I was worried about this as well, but I’m in undergrad and have run into zero issues. When teachers allow us to see the percentage similarity to AI text I’ve always had under 10%, usually under 5% if you omit direct quotations. I can’t imagine it gets more likely you’ll get dinged as your subject gets more arcane. The only time I’ve seen people in trouble for it are for really obvious plagiarism or AI use.
It’s not. I work in academia. Dumb, illiterate students think they’re sneaky and they’re not. The only way to get in trouble for using AI is to use AI.
Identifying LLM writing is extremely trivial, independent of the fact that detectors have low false positive rates.