the robots are helping

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• Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This wasn’t uncommon in pre-digital academia. The number of times I was baselessly accused of plagiarism was ridiculous. For years. Eventually, I decided to start plagiarizing. If I had to fight my professors every other paper, regardless, I might as well do it, right? Papers were quicker to write, objectively worse, and usually accepted without issue. I’m still pissed off.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Papers were… objectively worse

    Are you some kind of minority/disadvantaged person? If so, I bet the real issue was that you were triggering their “bigotry of low expectations” by writing well enough that they just assumed you must have been cheating.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Depends on who you’d ask, but I don’t believe that was it. No, it was just spontaneous tone shifts as I moved from a topic I didn’t care about to one that I did.

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• Darohan@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I once got flagged for plagiarism because I had page numbers! Also once got a flag for plagiarising… ✨myself✨ because I had ✨my name✨ on the front page 😔

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t believe this PoS is being used still. I left school like 10 years ago and it’s what we used. I remember one dumbass teacher issued a template for a coursework then tried to fail everyone because it flagged shigh similarity scores because of his own template. Keyword tried because everybody threw enough of a fit to make it stop.

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  • GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you remember what the one with better algo was? I’ve got some friends in the education sector that had to deal with the turnitin BS from the other side.

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve no idea, sorry, it was long ago.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They use it for PhDs here.

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• Batman@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh fucking hell I hate this thing.

  I am going back to school through work. I didn’t have this bullshit in my younger days. It’s made me drop my honors courses due to an asinine endless loop of hell.

  Whatever X percent matches as plagiarism. Professor says Y% is calculated for, for template formatting, etc. Still have some highlights of 3-4 words here and there, starting or ending paragraphs, “describe “blah”” answers that no matter how you re-word them something highlights. OK. Get creative with wording and phrasing, rewrite again.

  Now I’m pinged as using AI to do my writing. What?! Asshat prof basically has to side teach me where to check for this, school doesn’t have a tool. Fucker, I am old and can write faster than some chatbot. They’ve prob been trained on my whole generations writings.

  Anyway. If I cleared the plagiarism, I failed the AI writing check. If I corrected my paper and cleared the AI check, I failed the plagiarism again. Fuck Turnitin.

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• einlander@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What makes it worse is it matching essays from other students in other schools that were turned in privately. Do they not expect people to say the same things when given the same topic?

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  • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember getting flagged on my sources and properly attributed quotes. I’m sorry joe schmoe and I both quoted the same article and used the same quote from it.

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• phpinjected@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  my supervisor looking at my thesis gonna be like tf nigger

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• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck TurnItIn. They make their money off student papers. They don’t actually index shit.

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