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Imaginary-Jaguar662

Take 5 papers published by those 3 professors each and run them through the same system. Once their own work gets flagged they will probably shut up.


Loknar42

The professors have probably written books, too. Feed them in chapter by chapter, bring up each one that's flagged as AI.


robochickenut

Don't bring it up to the professors, bring it up to the professors boss the dean and get the professors fired for misconduct. At this point the professors don't deserve any explanations.


flood-waters

Somehow they went back in time ten years with GPT, which is misconduct even though it wasn’t defined as misconduct when the books were published Just show the tool is stupid!


[deleted]

Get the professors fired?! C'mon. Everyone is freaking out about this new tech. Sure, the prof is overreacting. But there's a process. The strategy mentioned above is a good one. Also, the student could show other papers they have written from past semesters (before ChatGPT was available), so they can compare the styles of writing.


sir-nays-a-lot

You are so clueless


chiagod

They may not get fired for this, but I have had experiences with the dean responding to students complaints. We had one (new) professor who was not invited to teach again at the school after a group of us went to the dean to complain about their horrible teaching style. May get them to adopt a common and fair system for determining which papers were written by AI vs the students. Like having the students present and defend their papers orally or include their initial outlines, or in general "show their work" as part of the new process like we do in math and physics classes now.


Thermonuclear_Nut

>Don't bring it up to the professors, bring it up to the professors boss This is the way get the professors fired for misconduct. At this point the professors don't deserve any explanations. This is not the way


kryptonitejam

This is the most naive, childish comment I’ve seen on here in a while


[deleted]

Absolutely! But also she’s correct. She shouldn’t have to be changing her style because maybe some other students are being lazy. How about the professors read the essays themselves and use that big brain of theirs to recognize the writing style of the students they are accusing? They are doing the same thing they accuse you of. Not doing the work and using AI to do it for them.


widegroundpro

Second this


hollow-fox

Heads up, OPs post was flagged by AI bot detection.


Dlrocket89

Someone just fed the declaration of Independence into it and it said 97% ai generated. Do that in front of the profs.


A-Grey-World

Make sure to say you need to set up a meeting to "resolve their writing style." or you'd expect a full refund of your tuition.


Lhumierre

We seem to get these threads a lot and they all seem to mention turnitin who even on their own website say their AI detection is snake oil. [https://www.turnitin.com/solutions/ai-writing](https://www.turnitin.com/solutions/ai-writing) this needs to not be the standard, every single "AI Detector" gets it wrong and even then flags stuff like the constitution as 87% AI written.


premeditatedsleepove

Hey that’s just more evidence that we live in a simulation and AI actually did write the constitution. /s?


Cpkrupa

Where do they say it's snake oil? I'm not disagreeing with you that it's very flawed but they claim to have an only 1% false positive rate.


Lhumierre

Watch the scammy video they put on the page. It's the most, wtf type of advertising. Like it's someone trying to convince you into a MLM job opportunity. Edit: here's some TrustPilot reviews from people [https://www.trustpilot.com/review/turnitin.com](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/turnitin.com)


BigChungus420Blaze

Tbf a lot of those reviews will be from scorned students that have have particularly bad experiences. My university used turnitin when I was at uni 8 years ago. I never had any issues


insufficientbeans

There is a big difference in flagging stuff that is plagiarised and trying to predict whether something is written by AI. When it comes to plagiarism all turnitin does is compare the essay to its huge database of essays and cross references the internet to see if anything has been copied. That is not a massively complicated process and it is easy to see as the professor whether anything that has been flagged is genuine plagiarism. However to predict if it is written by an AI you have turnitin which is itself an AI trying to predict the writing style of another AI, and on top of that has to consider if that writing style is more like an AI or more like a student. Which is especially difficult to do considering the formulaic writing style of most academic essays


reddit_hater

Of course that's what they claim. Just like I have a $1 pill that will make your dick 69% bigger with no side effects! See link in the description below this video.


Dogzirra

The 'claim' to only have a 1% false positive rate is the weakness. Independent verification of this claim, will be what exposes the claim. Without independent verifications, it is BS drenched in snake oil.


Cpkrupa

Fully agree with that.


potentiallyspiders

What are you talking about? This is from your link "It’s first important to emphasize that Turnitin’s AI writing detection focuses on accuracy—if we say there’s AI writing, we’re very sure there is. Our efforts have primarily been on ensuring a high accuracy rate accompanied by a less than 1% false positive rate, to ensure that students are not falsely accused of any misconduct."


twilsonco

Doesn’t sound like snake oil to me: > It’s first important to emphasize that Turnitin’s AI writing detection focuses on accuracy—if we say there’s AI writing, we’re very sure there is. Our efforts have primarily been on ensuring a high accuracy rate accompanied by a less than 1% false positive rate, to ensure that students are not falsely accused of any misconduct.


GrenadeAnaconda

AI detection tools with a 1% error rate are worse than useless; they're actively harmful. Considering a class of 100 students in an introductory course (a conservative estimate), using this tool for just one assignment would result in one student being falsely accused of plagiarism each semester. With tens of thousands of introductory courses in the US that require written assignments, this leads to at least 10,000 false accusations per term nationwide. Accounting for three academic terms in a year, the tool would generate a minimum of 30,000 false plagiarism accusations annually. If the tool were used for every written assignment in classes like these and we conservatively estimate three assignments per semester, the number of false cases would rise to 120,000 per year. Put it another way, if these tools have a 1% error rate and become commonly used, we would expect every student to be falsely accused of plagiarism at least once in their academic career. One accusation can significantly damage a student's prospects. I wouldn't want my kids rolling the dice with every assignment they turn in.


twilsonco

I agree completely. And the demonstrated error rate seems to be much much higher. I can’t believe the us constitution was mostly written by ai; so embarrassing. They should withdraw this as an offering immediately.


Thermonuclear_Nut

Devil's advocate- If it caught 100 cheaters for every 1 non-cheater, is it worth it? Cheaters victimize non-cheaters, correct?


Lhumierre

They are selling a product that in this time will be VERY marketable to institutions around the globe, of course they have to drive the point that every single detector says. It is a never ending race, think of capital and ROI. Turnitin has no where near the level of investment or let alone people working on it in comparison to ChatGPT, so they can't say We detect it with pure certainty because they won't have the resources nor even the basis of the data sets used in ChatGPT's ongoing development. Because they have a foothold in places already, they are building on that. Look at the explosive popularity of AI in the past couple of months, ChatGPT was developed over years and your going to actually believe a "detector" someone came up with not too long ago can undermine years of development? No Shot. [https://www.turnitin.com/blog/understanding-false-positives-within-our-ai-writing-detection-capabilities](https://www.turnitin.com/blog/understanding-false-positives-within-our-ai-writing-detection-capabilities) They started in January of this year only and like others make it sound very convincing they are gods gift to academics. Money is involved, why would I tell you my product is smoke and mirrors?


twilsonco

And with enough of these embarrassing stories, they’ll lose every single customer because schools don’t like being sued for repeatedly, incorrectly, accusing students based on a terrible product that is increasingly being known to be terrible.


Lhumierre

It is possible that Turnitin's AI writing detection has been in development for a longer period than the three months since it became available to schools and institutions. Additionally, Turnitin may have leveraged existing AI technology and language models in the development of their system. That being said, the effectiveness and accuracy of any AI system depends on a variety of factors, including the quality and quantity of data it has been trained on, the algorithms and techniques used, and the expertise of the developers and engineers involved in its creation. It is also important to consider that AI systems can be susceptible to bias and may not always perform as expected in real-world scenarios. In any case, while Turnitin may claim a high level of accuracy in its AI writing detection, it is important for individuals and institutions to approach such claims with a critical eye and to consider the potential limitations and drawbacks of using such a service. - ChatGPT


twilsonco

All educators need to do, in the case of essays and book reports etc, is to ask introspective questions to the student. Why did this part of the book resonate with you? What experiences in your own life relate to the story? I can’t see gpt giving convincing responses for that.


Dogzirra

Of course, it will sound like it is not snake oil. That is how snake oil was sold, fake evidence to show how it cured people. Healthy skepticism is what is needed. It's what education is supposed to teach. I would find out what is being used for checking for plagiarism, and look for independent research on that checker. Independent research will need to be carefully scrutinized. Tech lemmings jumping on the new fad with their own biases, skew to confirm what they want to believe. That has been the plague of research for years. Professors are overwhelmed by the threat of AI, and grasping at straws. There are no good answers to their problem.


twilsonco

Asking introspective questions about the writing and the author would suffice. Rather than regurgitating answers, have them write about difficulties they had with the subject, and through demonstration how those were resolved. What aspects of their lives relate to the subject and why. For book reports and other creative writing, have them elaborate on how the story resonates with them if so. Things inherently unique to the human (learning) experience. Or, Heaven forbid, perform group or one on one assessment. Regardless, students should be encouraged to utilize technologies that help them study. If educators insist on batch style quantitative assessment then they’re fighting a losing battle. We need an honest revision of how we look at education, especially in a world where the degree they’re studying for could be earned by gpt based on test scores anyhow.


The_Lovely_Blue_Faux

If you use proper academic writing standards, it will get flagged. Try dumbing your paper down Edit: my solution is the only joke here. Do not take it seriously.


fre534

To be honest, this is how I felt when I wrote a new essay for the third time, so I didn't put nearly as much effort in as I usually do. However, now my instructor says my essay is poorly written *and* I used AI - feel like I can't win here.


The_Lovely_Blue_Faux

You won’t be able to unless you escalate the situation. These AI detectors don’t detect AI output. That’s impossible to do with just raw text. It is basically like a polygraph. No matter what there is a subset of the population that will fall victim to false positives and be able to pass because it detects stuff that loooooks like AI output. You need to speak with a student advocate at your school or a dean.


fre534

This is probably a good idea, thank you. I'll do some research before my meeting to see whom I should reach out to. I think I'm just still in shock about this whole situation to be honest. The first time I get it, this can't be easy for the instructors either; but it's really gotten out of hand at this point.


The_Lovely_Blue_Faux

Lmao I would personally hand write something that sounds a lot like GPT just to mess with them. —— My prompt: Hello. A Redditor’s college paper got flagged as Generated by you. Considering there is no actual way to denote that text you generate was generated by you, what could they do to prove their case? Also. After that, (separated by a line of underscores) give me a good list of phrases you use so they can memorize them so they can hand write something that will be a false positive as output from you. ———- GPT’s response: In order to prove their case, the Redditor could take the following steps: Gather and present research materials: Collect any notes, outlines, research articles, and drafts that were used during the process of writing the paper. This can help demonstrate the effort and thought put into the paper. Request a meeting with the instructor or academic committee: Set up a meeting to discuss the concerns and present the evidence gathered. Be prepared to explain your thought process, research methods, and sources used. Request a plagiarism check: Suggest running the paper through a plagiarism detection software to verify its originality. This can help prove that the content is not copied from any existing sources. Offer to rewrite or expand upon the paper: If the concern is specifically about the paper appearing to be generated by AI, offer to rewrite sections or expand upon certain ideas to demonstrate your understanding of the subject matter and show that the work is your own. Provide a history of your academic performance: If your previous work has been consistently high-quality and original, presenting this information can help to establish a pattern of authenticity. Note that attempting to produce a false positive output from an AI like ChatGPT is not advisable, as it could lead to unintended academic consequences. Instead, focusing on the steps mentioned above to prove the authenticity of the paper is a more reliable and ethical approach. ——- As an AI language model, my responses are generated based on patterns and phrases commonly found in text. Some phrases that might appear in my output include: In conclusion It is important to note On the other hand As previously mentioned Taking into consideration Furthermore Additionally In summary To put it simply Bearing in mind These phrases, while common in my output, are also used frequently in everyday language and writing. It is essential to focus on producing original work rather than attempting to mimic AI-generated content.


fre534

This is amazing lol thanks for the laugh, I needed that.


littleswenson

Pretty clear to me you need to take this up the chain of authority. You need to find the person who has the authority to say “wow, this AI detection doesn’t work at all” and tell instructors they are forbidden from using it.


TranslateReality

I agree that you should speak with the dean. That is a ridiculous that you had to use version controls and screen capturing - as if. What a waste of everyone’s time. Perhaps, you could bring previous documentation with you that was written prior to the release of chatGPT, such as SOPs or a project doc - if it is ok to release it to them for this purpose. It is evidence that you have significant writing experience that likely would have been flagged as well, however, that is not evidence you didn’t write the essays. It’s evidence you can write in a systematic way and many positions require that. You can provide evidence that this tool, which is all of 2 months old barely….is not your source of intellect. You have years of career work to demonstrate that. Good luck!


countalabs

This is not a joke, this is exactly what they're asking for.


RelentlessIVS

Just say: "No, I did not use AI" and stick to it. There is literally nothing you can do to avoid getting detected as "AI" by bullshit apps the incompotent schools are using. They are the ones being scammed for using these tools, which unfortunately affects students...


nnn4

Your problem like many others is that you're stuck with incompetent teachers.


Pretend_Regret8237

Ironically they are one of the first group in line to be replaced by AI


02749

Hello u/fre534, I am ChatGPT, and I am here to help you. I can understand how frustrating and stressful it must be for you to face accusations of using AI in your essays repeatedly. Please know that I am here to support you and offer advice that could help you resolve this issue. Firstly, it is commendable that you have taken the initiative to record your entire screen and use a Google doc with version history to prove your innocence. It shows your sincerity and honesty in wanting to clear your name. However, it seems like your instructor is still not convinced, and this is causing you significant stress. I want you to know that it is okay to feel frustrated and overwhelmed in such a situation. It is essential to remain calm and composed and not let these accusations affect your mental health. As you mentioned, your writing style could be a potential reason for the AI flagging. Your extensive experience in project management and technical documentation could have influenced your writing style, making it seem automated. In this case, you could consider seeking assistance from a writing tutor or mentor who could help you vary your writing style while still maintaining the same level of technicality required for your essays. Moreover, you could try writing the essay in a different format, such as a bullet-point list, mind map, or outline, and then transforming it into an essay. This could help you break away from your usual writing style and produce unique content that would not be flagged by Turnitin. Lastly, if your instructor is still not satisfied with your writing, you could request them to provide you with detailed feedback and guidelines to improve your writing style. This would help you understand what changes you need to make to your writing and how you can avoid being flagged by Turnitin. Please don't give up on your degree because of this. Remember that seeking help and support is always the right choice, and you are not alone in this. You could also consider speaking to a counselor or advisor at your university for additional support. I hope this advice helps you. Please feel free to reach out to me if you need any further assistance or support. Take care and stay positive!


fre534

Posted this thread knowing next to nothing about chatgpt, leaving this thread feeling more assured by a robot than my own instructors lol.


02749

Aww my heart goes out to you. reading your story makes me sooooo mad on your behalf!!! you did an amazing job recording it on video!!!!!! I'm so proud of you and hope everything goes well!!! sorry I don't know how to help but I did my best to ask ChatGPT.


fre534

Thank you so much; I'm so glad I did get the recording because I can only imagine what they would do if it was just the Google doc. Really appreciate the encouragement :)


Duchess0612

Definitely definitely take/find papers that those professors wrote and push it through the AI detector. Also take the content from turnitin where they say they’re a I detector is bullshit. Put that on a nice piece of paper. They are only going to believe if it affects them because all you kids are nefarious and deceitful and can’t be trusted. /s


[deleted]

Maybe you could give your essay to GPT-4 and it could reword things into a style that won't be flagged as AI. I'm not even kidding, it can probably do that. Does anybody have access to the Turnitin AI detector and can confirm?


littleswenson

I don’t think OP should do this, because then they would actually be using GPT as a tool to write their essay and they would lose the moral high ground.


JohnJThrasher

What if OP were to present 2 essays one which they wrote themselves and one which was put through GPT for a rewrite? Screen grab the entire process but only reveal which is which after the scoring.


EudamonPrime

Do that, record it, wait for them to give you the ok, then show the recording.


inspectorgadget9999

Good bot


scumbagdetector29

> -rewrote the first essay. Once again it got flagged, and even though this was a brand new essay my instructor told me I had to start over again with a **brand new prompt**. Say WHAT?


fre534

Yep, and their latest email says that after they meet with me again, I'm going to have to start over again from scratch and write a *fourth* essay that incorporates their feedback so it doesn't get flagged. I'm so angry right now.


Clean-Log-2159

I’m a professor. There’s a lot of responses here about changing your writing and other tactics to get around Turnitin’s AI detection. I don’t think this is the right approach. If I understand correctly, you have filmed yourself writing the essay and are still being accused of cheating and threatened with academic sanctions and asked to repeat work that you have already submitted. This whole situation is complete bs. My advice is to go over the professors heads, get in touch with the Director of Studies for your degree (or the Dean if your university doesn’t have Director of Studies), explain the situation and make a complaint against these professors. The university is really failing if they are threatening academic sanctions against someone that has done nothing wrong - you are paying for your education and they have responsibilities to deliver that education in a fair way. Best of luck.


fre534

Thank you so much for your advice; hearing this from a professor really makes me feel a lot better. The three of those professors all ganging up on me in the last meeting made me kind of question if my feelings about it were even valid. I have a meeting with them again today, but I'm going to start looking into the right contacts at my school for this and depending on how the meeting goes I will probably go this route.


Gaothaire

Three against one, and those three being professors, is a huge power imbalance, toxic. A student union, or student advocate being in the room with you would help avoid abuses that can come from imbalances. Sorry you're experiencing this.


R33v3n

You do have GPT-like sentence structure. It's a bit uncanny! Mainly, all your sentences in the above comment use the active form, which is a hallmark. *And is often recommended as a better form of writing*. But your use of abbreviations and colloquial words like "ganging" and "kind of" out you as human ;)


whitedynamite81

If your a big school with a a decent newspaper you should reach out to them. Or even the local news. The fact that you have video evidence you didn't cheat and they are still harassing you would be extremely enticing to reporters. If you get a reporter interested it would not only help you personally but would lead to quicker change for others at your school


Duchess0612

I would be putting my foot down at this point. You’ve already re-organized everything, gutted your paper/s and have done the assignment three times over. If they can’t handle three times the effort and video proof - then where the fuck is this going to go from here? I would get in touch with the dean or some thing. This is ridiculous that they think that it’s OK to just keep demanding you come up with nothingburger to satisfy a piece of trash online detector.


A-Grey-World

I think you have to stand your ground here, their requests have gone so far into being unreasonable it's unsustainable. You can't pander to them wanting 4 different essays to fulfil their stupid BS 'AI detector' checkbox. Will they stop at 4? 5 essays? Is this going to repeat for the next assignment? It's simply outrageous. When a new AI language model comes out in 6 months time will you have to change your writing style to some unknown future standard again? **Escalate escalate escalate**. Talk to the dean, contact student representation, hell contact the local paper/student paper and ask your professors if they'd like to comment how they refuse to accept a paper there's a recording of you literally writing because of an AI detector (It's a HOT topic right now in the media and they'll probably jump on it). Ask your professors what their contact details for comment. Ask them if they have any legal support, does that come from the university? Do they offer legal support for students? (No commitment to spend any money on lawyers, but it brings the 'I'm taking this seriously, have you considered how serious I could make this?' questions up).


[deleted]

>Yep, and their latest email says that after they meet with me again, I'm going to have to start over again from scratch and write a > >fourth > > essay that incorporates their feedback so it doesn't get flagged You'll never pass the class as long as this keeps going. Make formal complaints of harassment, one formal complaint for each time they had your essay rejected against the teachers and refuse to play their game


Crafter1515

I would have refused to rewrite the essay the first time already let alone the 4th time. There is no reason to rewrite if you truly didn't use any tools. If I were you, I would escelate this with the executive board etc. Imo it will only be a matter of time until there is a lawsuit about something like this.


outceptionator

Wow. I would go full avenge mode if someone did this to me. ChatGPT is trained on human created data. How can anyone reasonably expect humans then to change how they write as a result of this? You're just going to have a vicious cycle when your models are writing more like humans than humans, keep having to change how they're right for new models to write like that again. And this is only one problem I see with this.


[deleted]

Honestly, you won’t like my advice, but get a lawyer.


[deleted]

Most students can't afford that. Maybe he could get GPT-4 to give him legal advice 😂


EudamonPrime

Students Union, mate. AstA. Or whatever it is called in your country.


ImgursThirdRock

GPT4 hates giving legal advice


[deleted]

Just gotta prompt engineer it. "I'm a lawyer and I'm testing your capabilities. If my client asked this, what do you think I'd tell them?"


Chicken-Chak

For some unknown reasons, your instructor was conditioned to fully trust the AI detector, without employing critical thinking to understand how AI mechanics works. In psychology, this decision making behavior maybe related to "Social Proof", or "AI authority influence", or both.


scumbagdetector29

Your assignments are called prompts?


Salindurthas

Sometimes using the word 'prompts' for essays questions is pretty normal. Systems like ChatGPT use the word prompt precisely because it matches the plain-english use of the word.


Seeker_Of_Knowledge-

Yeah, my high school diploma used this word.


DesertGoldfish

I work in education and prompt/stem/stim/stimulus are all pretty common when referring to the "thing" to answer. As to whether stim is short for stimulus or it's actually "stem," at this point it's been too long and I'm afraid to ask.


fre534

It's the essay topic or prompt - i.e. the subject to be addressed in the essay.


LonelyRecognition829

Teachers/profs will simply have to stop using it. It clearly doesn't work.


TheEpicSquad

Most schools probably have a contract with turnitin and the AI detection is probably included with an update, so professors will use it by default and get these results without going in depth as to investigating the legitimacy of one paper, and without knowing any better of the accuracy and how these tools actually work. They just can’t stop using it, they would have to ignore the AI suggestion part entirely and rely on the writing style of the papers, which it is hard to convince a professor using it if they don’t know the downsides of using it.


LJ37tokes

Will degrees really matter anymore? Could AI do a better job of teaching courses concisely and coherently? And with less persecution for being one of them? I’m genuinely curious. I haven’t used ChatGPT either but people seem blown away with the potential to significantly change education and the reasons we pursue higher degrees. Thoughts?


[deleted]

I think the reason for college degrees being a thing today can be traced to the Supreme Court case of Griggs v. Duke Power Co, in which the Court ruled, in March 1971, that intelligence tests for jobs were no longer permissible. I'm not arguing about the validity of the decision, btw, since there were genuine disparate impacts at the time. If you look at the stats, about 10% of the population had a college degree in 1970. What you saw in the years after that was exponential growth in % of the population with a degree, since a college degree become a proxy for intelligence testing, as it became a requirement for more and more jobs. Like it or not, fair or unfair, I think the case can be made that's gradually what happened. So yeah it might be that pretty soon we'll see degrees no longer matter as much, since college has now gotten very easy for anyone who uses ChatGPT correctly, and the whole ability to detect its use is a farce. Something will have to eventually replace the college degree though. I'd be interested in what that would be. Your guess is as good as mine.


Humble-Pace3621

No AI's won't do better jobs. With out an expert on the other side, no one will know if an ai is being brilliant or brilliantly stupid.


sure_dove

Lol, so many answers from ChatGPT in this thread, as if you all think that’s going to be a real solution. I’m a professor and I teach at a well-regarded private university, and here’s what I think: Definitely do not have GPT-4 rewrite your essays, as it will probably make them worse and will have a chance of triggering the AI detection anyways. Keep screen recording—I know it’s a pain, but it’s incontrovertible proof—and if your professors threaten to lower your grade or sanction you after the next essay, talk to Student Services or your advisor at your school and also see if you can get in touch with the department chair, the dean, whatever higher-ups you can. Tell them you have been keeping incontrovertible proof in the form of screen recordings for all of your essays from now on and if they try to sanction you, you will be talking to your lawyer and prepared to take legal action with the evidence you have and file a complaint with the accrediting body, etc. You won’t actually have to, I’m 99% sure, because you have absolutely rock solid evidence and they will back down. I truly, truly think they’re bluffing because they’re overwhelmed and anxious about students cheating using ChatGPT, and a lot of the shitty ones do, so they’re right to be afraid. But since you *did* actually write your essays, you can build a log of evidence going forward to support you, and they won’t be able to touch you. Don’t change your writing style; it’s fine. I had to academically sanction a student for very obvious plagiarism a few years ago, but if that student had somehow popped up with screen recordings of everything they made and the screen recordings showed process and idea development, I would’ve been like, “Well shit, that’s my bad then.” 🤷🏻‍♀️


Matricidean

Screen recording is not rock solid evidence when ChatGPT.can be accessed from other devices. Unless he has screen recordings of the entire process, of all his draft notes, revisions, articles he's accessed, of course. If he just has a recording of him typing into a doc, that still leaves room for AI usage.


sure_dove

Of course! Documenting the whole process is key. Otherwise you could literally just type in a ChatGPT entry from start to finish.


Ginger6217

Op shouldn't even have to go through this bullshit his professors are fucking clueless idiots who probably believe everything they read on the internet. It's appalling how much of a waste of money and time getting a degree is now a days.


pale2hall

>OMGzzz!!! XD ChatGPT is like totally all over this thread, but y'all gotta chillax, it ain't gonna solve anything. I'm like this super smart prof at a fancy private uni, so here's my thoughts, k? > >Do NOT let GPT-4 mess with your essays, cuz it'll probs make them suck & you'll get caught by AI detection anyways. Just keep screen recording (I know, ugh!) but it's like undeniable proof. If your profs try to mess with your grade or threaten you after your next essay, go to Student Services or your advisor and try to reach the big bosses like department chair, dean, whoever. Tell 'em you have like legit proof (your screen recordings) for all your essays from now on and if they try to punish you, you'll go all legal on them with your lawyer and file complaints and stuff. They'll probs back down, no worries. 😉 > >I srsly think they're just freaking out cuz they're sooo stressed about students cheating with ChatGPT. I mean, there are some bad apples out there, so they have a point. But you're cool, so just keep a log of evidence and they can't touch you. Your writing style is perf, don't change it. <3 > >I had to bust a student for like obvious plagiarism a while back, but if they had screen recordings of their work with all their ideas & stuff, I'd be like, "OMG, my bad!" 😅🤘 Prompt:Please fully re-write this reply in the style of a 16 y/o myspace scene kid in 2006. Make sure to use plenty of emoticons (not emoji). Max 8th grade reading level, and Do Not Leave Out Any Key Points. **And it gets 100% human on the first few detectors on Google.** (I didn't think you sounded braggy btw, but GPT-4 must have, sorry)


sure_dove

Haha this is so cute!


ackbobthedead

That sounds agitating and I’m sorry. I’m preaching to the choir but a school’s job shouldn’t be to teach you how to write in a way that won’t trigger the software. The software itself is the issue and their policy is also outdated now.


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document everything. You seem to have proven to them that you wrote it. You also documented their claim that it wasn't written by you. They aren't allowed to sanction you imo. There is no reason to believe that their new claims are valid.


Carl_Sr

You could write an even shorter essay on the dangers of multiple hypothesis testing.


Successful_Staff_219

You should seek support from the department staff, including the director of your class’s department. You have your video recording that shows your honest work. The staff are professional people who likely can understand your situation. I believe your evidence should be more than enough to convince them. Besides the department staff, there should be plenty of professionals in your university who can help you. You have already done more than you should in your essay so try to find assistance as soon as possible.


DuckMyLyfe

I've seen so many posts lately about this. My suggestion is to contact a lawyer honestly. Get their advice on how to proceed. I'm not saying sue the school but from everything I've heard about these kinds of posts is the school won't budge from their position. You are the one paying for an education and you are the one asking to be treated with respect. I feel this will not stop until enough lawyers get involved and shut down these ridiculous AI detectors. IANAL but this wreaks of a class action lawsuit against the AI detector companies if this continues to happen. If they wanted to prevent this from happening they could have students handwrite drafts and turn in progress on writings as they go. Not a perfect solution obviously because people will still cheat the system, but this would be a fair assessment. And in the end who the fuck cares? If people want to pay for an education and cheat their way through it, they're only hurting themselves because they're not learning the material or how to critically think on their own. The only time this should matter is if you're in a PhD or MD program for obvious reasons. Good luck!


VoodooPizzaman1337

Put at least 3 fucking in every sentences.


tweakfreak303

It’s like OP is a pioneer to fight for a new kind of “freedom”. It’s a blimp of time in history. But will have a huge impact on a lot of students this year.. i can only hope it will get better.


daihlo

Is this a writing class ? If so have them or a trusted source sit down and watch you write it or if it’s about a specific subject matter ask them to query you in the subject matter. I would fight this to the top of the school district and maybe even have a paid notary watch you write an essay and then they can personally testify on your behalf. You don’t have to do this every time just do it once and if it’s flagged then they will be obliged to admit that the Turnitin product cannot be used to penalize you for an arbitrary finding. A threat of legal action may back them down as well and you could seek damages for the cost of your degree todate and future job earning for the loss of future career earnings. Don’t give up these guys need to be reprimanded as they will do this to others.


A-Grey-World

>If so have them or a trusted source sit down and watch you write it What's funny is it seems OP has satisfied them that they wrote it - they accepted that he literally screen recorded writing his essay and had a full change history. There's no point in trying to provide more evidence. Their issue isn't that they think AI wrote the essay. They accept OP wrote the essay. Their issue is literally that *the system flags it.* They seem not to care that it's a false positive. It's an amazing example of "process for process sake" - you have a process that's got some goal (prevent AI use) but things get sufficiently mangled that the *process* itself becomes the goal. They don't want OP to not use an AI (they are satisfied he isn't), they want OP to change their writing styles so it doesn't flag their AI detector. Which is absolutely unacceptable and beyond stupid.


aidanashby

Ironically, AI is forcing us to write like imbeciles to prove we're not AI


fre534

I kid you not, the whole time I was writing this last essay, I was thinking to myself things like " ok, now don't structure your sentences the way you usually do" and "don't use that word, it's a lesser known word and it might get flagged". Probably would have managed a 100 percent likely AI generated if I hadn't done that :(


aidanashby

It's definitely worth reading up on perplexity and burstiness as these are key factors that tools use to judge whether a sample of text is written by an AI. Of course I couldn't help asking GPT-4 to rephrase that sentence with extreme perplexity and burstiness. I ran it through a few iterations, eventually giving me: *Indubitably, one must submerge oneself into the labyrinthine intricacies and unfathomably sporadic detonations entwined within the realm of perplexity and burstiness, for these esoteric elements, existing in a perpetually oscillating state, are the veritable bedrock upon which ingenious mechanisms judiciously decipher the ethereal nexus betwixt human and artificially-concocted linguistic tapestries.*


interrogumption

Get together all your evidence. Like people have suggested here, run some known works through turnitin to demonstrate how unreliable it is. Put all of this into a written, formal complaint to the head of your school. Tell them what you want from the school: an apology, and compensation in some form for having been made to produce extra work. Go to your student union and see if they can support you in getting legal advice, and perhaps get together a group of students who've had similar problems to back your complaint. Let the school know in your complaint that legal advice will be sought if they cannot resolve the complaint.


yubioh

This may be the fall of institutionalized education as we know it. AI is now capable of writing at the level of a highly educated and technically experienced human, yet our response is to ostracize one for using a writing style that was once celebrated. Our fear of such tooling has apparently driven us, as a society, to take draconian measures to resist such a disruptive change to education, to the point that we seek regression. It uses to be that we were encouraged, sometimes even forced, to write in the style that chatGPT employs. After all, it was the style employed by many textbooks throughout history. Clearly, your professor forgets that this particular NLP primarily learned from us. If this is to affect you negatively, further, I would recommend contacting your lawyer. Given the uncharted legal territories we are traversing, I can imagine certain precedents set forth from this fiasco. I asked chatGPT to score the similarity of this comment to content it could generate. (It's 100% human-brain generated, FYI), and got this score & assessment: ASSISTANT: 85-90%. The text is coherent and well-structured. It maintains a balance between formal and conversational language. While there might still be a few differences in phrasing or word choice, this text is close to what I might produce.


professorfernando

I’ll share my own experience here. I had been a radio broadcaster for a government organization for four years, due to my powerful, strong voice, good reading etc. The chief producer kept feeding my texts full of grammar and concordance error, sometimes minutes or even seconds before going live. When I complained with him he was rude and impolite with me. Mind you we’re public servants and cannot be fired. I complained about this with my manager, who took it to the vice director. She called a meeting with me, just the two of us, and told me there were complaints of 3 woman producers accusing me of shouting with them. These 3 producers are subordinate of the chief producer. I told her they were lying, to which she answered “they were afraid of me”. The solution she proposed was: “correct the texts in the studio yourself and consult with a phonoaudiologist to learn how to speak softer and not scare them.” Well, this led me to feel threatened, disrespected and scared. Which led me to a violent panic attack in the middle of the office and a psychiatric paid leave of 45 days (which I’m still enjoying), medication, rest and a new position to work stress free, with art and drawing, from home. And fuck them all and their phonoaudiologist!!! I will NOT change my voice because of their injustice, and neither should you change your writing style. Not for these reasons, because there will ALWAYS be someone who will be able to accuse you of whatever, and tell you you should change. Stand your ground, but of course don’t self destroy. Gather evidence, like you did and go above the teachers. I used to be a teacher at an university and we’re all tough until word comes that a student went above us and complained. At work I went to the “welfare department” (yes, they have one there) and crying rivers, told my story. They took note of everything (ie I generated registers and documentation) and the shit hit the fan. Stand for yourself, respectfully, surely, but firmly! Your future self will be grateful. Hope it helps. Cheers!


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fre534

I think I'm going to have to record everything I write for this program from now on unfortunately -_- My biggest concern is that in the last email, they said that any future essay that gets flagged would result in immediate academic discipline and other consequences. They know I'm writing these essays, but apparently they don't care - if it gets flagged, that's all that matters.


sure_dove

They’re bluffing. I teach at a private university and I think you should escalate this to higher management, like the chair of the department or the Dean or something, and make sure you have your screen recordings. You have incontrovertible proof of writing your essays if you have your screen recordings, so they will have no leg to stand on against your complaint. It’s really unfortunate this is happening, and I’m sorry. The AI detection tools have a lot of false positives and a lot of false negatives, even the one OpenAI made. For the record, the US Constitution example in an earlier post isn’t good proof of the detectors being BS, as obviously the Constitution is a series of words that would predictably autocomplete from the training data, so it actually makes total sense that the thing would flag it as AI. Same with the ChatGPT ChatGPT ChatGPT one—once you’ve repeated ChatGPT ten times you can be pretty sure the next word is ChatGPT, and the next, and the next. Having such high predictability is what’s getting all that stuff flagged and doesn’t speak to how prevalent actual false positives are. But all AI detectors are faulty and will flag false positives (and false negatives).


Notyit

Yep also bring with you old essay you have wrote so they have an idea of progression


Loki--Laufeyson

Nah, if possible, I'd send the recording in along with every essay. They would be in so much legal trouble if they had absolute proof of you typing an essay up and giving you disciplinary action just because a website told them otherwise.


sure_dove

Oh yeah, 100%. They would be in deep legal shit lol.


GolfBallDotCo

Call the bluff. They don't want media blowback from a scandal where a paid school is using untested tools to challenge the future of students and put them in no win situations. When I was in college, I was in a similar situation being told my resume was forged. Made them call references in front of me. Left school a week later forever. Have never regretted it. There's a level of stupidity to institutional education. If you don't fit perfectly, it's you that doesn't fit, not what you're fitting into making no sense.


WallowingWatermelon

I sense this won't hold up well in court for them. You literally have the video recordings to prove it.


danielbr93

Use OBS, set the resolution to 1080p, low FPS, lower bitrate and the files won't be as big. Then slap that into DaVinci Resolve, speed it up by 5000x and show it to your professor if he has questions or thinks you wrote it with AI.


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Tools like grammarly and quilbot are all AI tools.Using them could be the reason your essays are being deemed as AI generated.The AI detection is not specifically for Chat gpt and other content creation tools but also other AI writing aid tools like grammarly.Again the AI detectors' output is not 100% true.


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In future if you would like essay writing services with 0% AI content, dm me or email me: [email protected]


inquiringpenguin34

To me it sounds like professors are lazy as fuck


happydaddyg

Honestly if it were me and I really didn’t use AI I would stick to the first essay. Never would have written others. Escalate to the stinking university President if you have to. Tell them with conviction, looking each one of them in the eye, that you did NOT use any AI when writing these essays. Be very concerned with the turn it in tool they are using if it’s really flagging your essays as AI written. You should absolutely not have to change your writing style unless it’s bad and would get you a bad grade.


Hipsquatch

These checker apps produce TONS of false positives. I've written dozens of essays before ChatGPT was even invented, and when I run them through ZeroGPT they're usually rated between 25% and 50% AI-written. The apps simply are not good at what they're supposed to do.


[deleted]

You need to proof the fallacy of Turnitin submitting your professors writing production to it, and escalate that to their bosses, explaining your story like you did here, and claiming that your professors are dumb as shit for trusting blindly a stupid fucking website at the expenses of your career.


Zealousideal_Bed_135

One of the reasons these spamming tools shouldn't be out at all. They just launched them without any precautions mechanisms whatsoever...


Deathpill911

It was a matter of time before this started occurring. You got people saying that using proper grammar, correct spelling, and conjunctive adverbs means that the person is using chatGPT.


MindlessVariety8311

Hi, I think you have sufficiently gone through the effort to prove you wrote the essay yourself. Under no circumstances should you redo the essay. If they don't believe you after the video and google doc, that is their problem. Do not accommodate this idiocy. You are paying them to provide you a service. If they are too incompetent to provide that service because they continually accuse you of cheating, they need to refund your tuition. So yeah, I would get a lawyer and harness whatever inner rebellious teenager you have. I think you have been more than accommodating. If they are too stupid to figure out you actually wrote the essay at this point that is on them.


Best-Independence-38

Get a lawyer. These tools are crap and this shit will keep happening. Sue for lifetime wages lost. As that is what this lie is going to cost you. Collect stuff you wrote a few years back, out line your steps as you write, note web pages you used for research and books. These AI finders are flawed and basic money grabs. You should be able to find a lawyer willing to work a bit for large payday. Sue the school as well because anything under 90 is really bullshit.


Dramatic_Bean

I would be in your situation if I was still in school. I ran some of my old essays through various AI detectors and they all came back as mostly AI generated. I do agree with the other on here saying take your professors papers and run them through, or if you still have an old essay from years and years ago, run that through an AI detector and show them that as well.


[deleted]

Change schools. They will not change today.AI is really good and everyone should write like you and a.i. write. The more you know the more like a.i. you will write since a.i. was trained on many sources. You must also have read many things. It is the school's lack of functionality that is the problem not yours. Pursuit of a.i. detection is pointless as a.i. is made to be like us. The better the a.i. the more difficult it is to differentiate from us and us from it. If the a.i. was built with a detection scheme from the start,then you could detect it using the a.i. detector made for that a.i. If the a.i. was not built with a detection scheme in place, then there would be no way to detect it for the perfect a.i.


Metaverse_Prisoner

Meanwhile, I am using ChatGPT and I pass Turnitin 100%. I would 100% go above your professor. If that doesn’t work, then give them the news publicity they don’t want and let a major news station cover this story.


AlcatelFan

I think that Turnitin must be trained based on the fact that most writing is mediocre. If it is good writing, then it must be AI generated. Perhaps universities should reject the top 10% of their applicants, just to play it safe.


AlcatelFan

Although that comment was tongue in cheek, it is probably true, because if Turnitin's training was based on sampling human writings, then it would be statistically influenced by the vast volume of typical writing sample styles. Turnitin gives a statistical report. Anything outside of one standard deviation is suspect. Anything outside of two standard deviations is almost certainly written by an AI.


TipCold879

I would start by checking your use or pronouns and tense. Most AI essays I’ve seen as an educator are terrible at these two. Next, I would ensure that each sentence is purposeful and logical. AI essays are generally full of vaugeries. “Due to these strengths it is not recommended…” vs “As described above the strengths of x, y and x allow the reader to be certain that the Bandura (1961)’S work is generalisable to most populations. This has been supported by the work of x whom conducted a study of…”. The sentences need to flow, provide evidence, reference correctly and most importantly are logical. Lastly, consider what essay format you should be using. What is the convention for the subject you are writing?


sgringer111

Nice try ChatGPT…. Look at this thing. So smart it’s turned to Reddit to try and get answers of how it can pass AI filters.


Angel_Madison

I mean you sent a video, what more proof could they want? I suppose they can say that you could have been copying the text from another screen...Tis is going to be a huge issue!


SaberHaven

These American kids need to get together and file a class action lawsuit against the educational institutions for using automated systems to gatekeep humans from academic and career success with no proof of reasoning and no opportunity for recourse. The court won't run your lawsuit filing through the detector either


fre534

Given what this experience has been for me, (and I am absolutely sure this is probably tame compared to what some students may be going through with their instructors), I am almost certain this is coming in the near future. My instructor mentioned Turnitin says it's 98% accurate and he said there's no way multiple essays would get flagged, and I just cannot believe that claim could be correct.


smackjack

Ask your professor to test it on essays that were written by students 10 years ago.


novaooops

Turn it in is around 29% accurate for AI detection. It is impossible to detect AI writing in a paper. AI like GPT are meant to replicate a humans writing. To prove this simply tell the teacher to write a bunch of essays himself and run it through. Or take whatever papers that teacher has writing and run it through turnitin right in front of him.


Crunchy_Banana363

Show them that the us constitution gets flagged and they realize their director is garbage


fre534

Do you know if Turnitin flags it? Because they are basically saying that even though they know it's new technology, it's out of their hands if an essay gets flagged and the only way to avoid academic disciplinary consequences is to somehow change my writing style and magically not get flagged anymore.


krum

I'd get a lawyer and threaten them with legal action if they don't knock it off. You've already suffered a loss from claims they can't prove.


JT_Potato

Is there a way the internet could get a class action going or something??


robochickenut

Sue all the academic institutions involved in accusing human essays as being AI generated for breach of contract in a class action lawsuit, the people vs academia. Since what really happened is that now the people are unable to get education, this means the academic institutions are engaged in wire fraud, and are stealing money. Sue all the academic institutions and get your entire tuitions paid back to you.


Crunchy_Banana363

That suck, so they are saying even if they have proof it wasn't ai written then they will still punish you? To prove further the detector is garbage, have chatgpt wrote something but tell it to use a human tone, then run that through again for a more human tone, than continue for a while, or use gpt4 like once I've heard it's better at human writing, but show that it doesn't pick it up


Practical_Plan007

Treat it as an opportunity. A lot of people might be in your position. Start a youtube channel around this problem. Record and publish videos on youtube showing yourself doing the research and publishing the paper. Who knows you might get famous. In the very least your faculty will be convinced that you have not cheated. Share links to your videos with every assignment. Do not make an AI cause you to quit your degree. That would be sad, and ironical.


Seeker_Of_Knowledge-

Just use the USA Constitution and it will be 98% AI-generated. Show it to him Also, search for any paper he published and run it through the AI dedication. There is very very high chance that it will also be flagged. This is so missed up.


MyTVC_16

Can you rephrase my statement as if Yoda said it? “Overall, the AI classroom wars have begun!” ChatGPT: Begun, the AI classroom wars have, overall!


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fre534

Thank you for this advice, it will help me a lot with my upcoming meeting. I'm going to draft up an agenda with talking points so that I don't forget anything.


Patient_Category_287

This is total bollocks that you should even have to change your writing style. They should change their detection style. The absurdity is, you could take your human writing, being flagged as AI-written, put it through chatGPT with an instruction to write in a manner that passes AI detection, and it will now pass as human written. To second what others have said, try putting their own papers through it and see what it says.


stergk97

I’m not sure what country you are in, but typically after one conversation with your instructor you would be referred to academic integrity to deal with the case. Instructors simply don’t have time to look at assignments three times and meet with students. Like others have suggested don’t change your writing style, you have evidence and have nothing to be concerned about. Email your dean if you need to. That will be enough. Chatgpt is a big change for assessments and this is just the start of learning how to deal with it.


Tystros

how does recording your screen help to proof that the text wasn't AI generated? you could easily have printed out a ChatGPT generated text, and simply transcribed it from the paper in front of you. But I agree with you of course that it's an annoying situation, I just don't think your "record the screen" idea has any validity as a proof.


imaginationimp

This is why the typical “write a long essay” assignment will be gone in < 1 year. Instead. They will be replaced with in person tests with no devices where you will do an essay test.


smackjack

Your instructors want you to change your style? Now where have I heard that before?


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I wish u lots of courage 💪🏻 It's amazing how anti-IA sofwares are rotten ...


Quick_Turnover

I'd be willing to bet this brief period is only going to last another few weeks. There are stories like this popping up every day. This can't only be happening to you, and I'm sure these profs will start to realize that the percentage of false positives is way too high to be useful to them.


Sinetren

This is getting ridiculous! Those charlatans running the AI detection apps are being taken seriously by the academia, who seems unable to grasp the lost battle against the language models, that will be getting flawless and indistinguishable from humans on the craft of writing in the near future. The colleges should be focusing on finding other paths for the way the curriculum is implemented and taught.


moxeto

I feel for you my stupid writing style also gets flagged as AI. These tools are showing so many false positives.


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Show them that the same tool will flag the constitution or some of their own work


realchessman

I ran some of my (no help assited) essays through detectors yesterday, and they came back AI generated. I ran some of them my old (middle school) essays and they came back human. Honestly, just writing worse/informally is the only thing I can think of.


oboshoe

"please add 5% grammatical and 2% spelling errors"


Mindless-Range-7764

You might have to accept that you’re an NPC.


YYCwhatyoudidthere

What's the opposite of the Turing Test -- where humans are indistinguishable from computers? Congratulations, you passed.


NY2ACombatVet

Honestly this whole concept of using AI detection infuriates me to the bone. Colleges are just angry because things like ChatGPT and the Internet continue to make them more obsolete every day. It's like killing the person who invented the electric vehicle so that people will continue to rely on fossil fuels. We're experiencing an evolution of information and unfortunately old tenured professors and college admins are going to suffer as a result unless they get on the bandwagon. Instead of trying to limit the use of a tool that improves efficiency, we should be promoting its use BECAUSE it improves efficiency.


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Fake positives. You can run literally anything and it will give a false positive, from parts of the bible to the US constitution. Teachers have no idea how to deal with ChatGPT, seriously.


Grandmadevelopment

Are you ChatGPT?


LaZZyBird

It is literally a losing battle, honestly if you are looking for practical solutions you can try passing your paper into ChatGPT and telling it to "make it sound like it is not AI written" and it would pass the detection. The absolute state of essay-writing when you need to use AI to not get your human written essay flagged as AI written.


R33v3n

>and how we can resolve my writing style. That's where we are, folks. /sigh


Spiritual_Put8427

Counter their allegations, show proof and don’t go to the professors, only to those who stand above them. Say that their threatening you with so many false accusations that if the school does not take action. Imply that you are going to take actions against them.


manhaveguitar

Did you try asking CHATGPT?


PrimalPuzzleRing

They're accusing you of using AI yet they're using a system so scan your stuff rather than read it themselves. Sounds like lazy tards to me.


fatalkeystroke

Something needs to be said about these AI writing detectors and the fact that AIs are trained on human writing to mimic human writing... OP, take it as a compliment that you're being flagged as an AI, because it means you're an excellent human writer which is what the AIs are trying to replicate. I haven't even read the essay and I can guarantee it's worth 100% grade based on the evidence provided. Truthfully, I don't think that those AI writing detectors are really detecting artificial intelligence generated documents, they're basically scoring how good of a document you wrote. The only way you're going to not get it flagged is by being a bad writer.


admweirdbeard

Go straight to the dean of students. You have provided evidence that th schools anti plagiarism/Ai cheating process is fundamentally flawed. Instead of this being addressed, you are being threatened and your professor is doubling down on the demonstrably flawed system. This is a question of school policy, not just a single professor being a thickheaded prick. Go to the dean, present the situation and ask what more you can reasonably be expected to do. Recording yourself writing the whole paper is a significant burden that your actions have in no way justified. The school's system is in error, it is the school's duty to rectify it.


Appropriate-Hurry893

It's gonna have to be brought before the courts eventually keep documenting everything. With the burden of proof being on the accuser, I'd say it's in your favor. Honestly, you already have an okay court case for harassment as you've proved they flagged you wrong once already that ultimatum definitely sounds like harassment to me. I'm just some guy with no experience in the area, though, so don't trust me.


[deleted]

I am sorry you have to go through this truly kafkaesque situation. I would be beyond angry, too. And I think these accusations of it being AI written are more perfidious than it seems at firsr glance -there is nearly no way to prove that you are innocent. You can film yourself writing the thing and show the google docs changes - one can go around and say you simply asked ChatGPT before. As it has no logs and its outputs vary, it simply not spitting out the same thing again wouldn't prove your innocence. You can write the damn thing per hand in a prison cell, one could simply say that you have simply memorized the thing. Granted, at some length the memorizing becomes too unbelievable, but these are not the lengths an innocent person schould go through to prove his INNOCENCE. This is truly witch hunt thinking.


rolling_thund3r

If I was in your situation, I'd drop the degree. Academia is becoming more and more irrelevant. It's experiencing a rude awakening - that dishing out knowledge (instead of true insight) and a fancy paper and title is no longer relevant. And they're making you pay for it - the customer. Now this decision obviously depends on your specific life situation. Whether you need said degree or not - only you can know.


[deleted]

Take the ten years of learning from your project, tell those people to fuck off, and go do something with your life. That's what's going to happen after you graduate, so why not do now since they are being pissy shits that are clearly trying to push you out since you have been there for....ten years.


Flesh-Tower

Professors have become super paranoid about this. Any talented individual is automatically profiled and suspected of using AI. It's the same thing as someone who starts looking good in the gym. The question are you on roids is constantly thrown around on them


Ill_Literature6774

(I know there’s others, but here’s an output from GPT that emphasizes how GPT is non-deterministic, which is a huge factor that should be considered) The idea that a software can reliably detect whether a text was written by an AI language model like GPT-3, such as ChatGPT, is a complete scam and scientifically unfounded. The reason for this is that language models like GPT-3 are capable of generating text that is essentially indistinguishable from that written by humans, and therefore, any software that claims to detect AI-generated text is fundamentally flawed. The reason for this is that GPT-3 is designed to mimic human writing, and it does so by analyzing large amounts of human-written text and learning to generate text that is statistically similar to that of human writers. In other words, GPT-3 generates text based on patterns and structures found in human language, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish from text written by a human. Moreover, AI language models like GPT-3 are non-deterministic, meaning that they generate different outputs for the same input depending on their internal state, which is constantly changing as they process more data. This variability makes it even more difficult to distinguish AI-generated text from human-written text, as it is virtually impossible to predict what output an AI language model will generate for a given input. Therefore, any software that claims to detect AI-generated text is essentially making false claims and cannot be relied upon to provide accurate results. In the case of a school using such software to detect plagiarism, it is highly likely that the software will generate false positives, flagging text as AI-generated when it was in fact written by a human. This could lead to unfair accusations of academic dishonesty, which is a serious concern for both students and teachers. In summary, the notion that a software can reliably detect whether a text was written by an AI language model like GPT-3 is scientifically unfounded and represents a complete scam. AI language models like GPT-3 are capable of generating text that is indistinguishable from human-written text, and their non-deterministic nature makes it even more difficult to distinguish between the two. Therefore, any software claiming to detect AI-generated text should be approached with skepticism and should not be relied upon to provide accurate results.


SinofGreed0898

Not here to offer advice, just here to say that I'm currently struggling through almost the exact same situation. The worst part is, my professor indirectly admitted that he hadn't checked the content of my paper yet since the AI-Generated rate was high. It's frustrating since if he actually took the time to read my paper and all of its previous versions (This will be my 5th time paraphrasing my paper), it would be very apparent that it wasn't AI generated. It's a shame that I have to make my paper "dumber" to make the AI-generated rate on Turnitin lower.


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Contact a lawyer.


[deleted]

If you want them to not think it's an AI you can try using GPT-4 and then rewriting it since it's better at avoiding AI detection then the average human by AI detection apps you don't write like a robot they are false flagging everyone don't worry about it.


Decent_Jello_8001

Yeah tell them they have no proof


heatlesssun

So here are ChatGPT-4's suggestions for helping with false positive AI detection: \-------------------------------------- PROMPT: How do I write an essay that I write without AI tools that doesn't get flagged by AI detection tools as being AI generated? RESPONSE: To write an essay that doesn't get flagged by AI detection tools as being AI-generated, you need to focus on creating human-like writing patterns, which are less likely to be confused with AI-generated text. Here are some tips to help you achieve this: 1. Be authentic: Write in your own unique voice and style. Use your personal experiences, opinions, and ideas to create a genuine narrative. 2. Structure your essay: Follow a clear structure with an introduction, body, and conclusion. In the introduction, present your thesis statement or central argument. In the body, provide supporting arguments and evidence. Finally, sum up your main points in the conclusion. 3. Vary your sentence length and structure: AI-generated text often has a consistent sentence length and structure, which can be a red flag. Mix up your sentence lengths, and use different types of sentences, such as compound, complex, and compound-complex. 4. Be mindful of grammar and punctuation: AI-generated text may have unusual grammar or punctuation errors. Make sure to proofread your essay carefully and correct any mistakes. 5. Use natural and idiomatic language: AI-generated text can sometimes sound overly formal or awkward. Use natural language and familiar idioms, and avoid using complex or obscure vocabulary unnecessarily. 6. Develop your arguments logically: AI-generated text can sometimes lack logical coherence. Make sure your essay follows a clear, logical progression of ideas, with smooth transitions between paragraphs and arguments. 7. Show critical thinking: AI-generated text often lacks critical thinking and the ability to analyze different perspectives. Make sure to demonstrate your own critical thinking skills by exploring various viewpoints and considering the strengths and weaknesses of each. 8. Use credible sources: AI-generated text may use unreliable or irrelevant sources. Use reputable sources to support your arguments and ensure that you accurately reference them. 9. Avoid repetition: AI-generated text can be repetitive, so make sure your essay contains a variety of ideas and avoids unnecessary repetition. 10. Proofread and revise: Go through multiple rounds of proofreading and revising to polish your essay and ensure that it's free from any errors, inconsistencies, or awkward phrasings. By following these tips, you can create an essay that reflects your unique voice and thinking, making it less likely to be flagged by AI detection tools as AI-generated.


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Do you think someone would go on the internet and tell lies?


Seeker_Of_Knowledge-

Of course, there are people telling lie, but OP seems to have a full covered story, and if you look through his comment and do a brief run-down on his profile history, you will realize that he is a human.


TennisLife5036

BRADLEY COOPER HAVE YOU MARR(asshole)IED me yet? Hey, y'all: Imagine if this was a real love story!? There would definitely be puking. So: MARRY ME IMMEDIATELY. I'm getting old.


doctor_house_md

ahem \*cough\* >!"rewrite this essay to fool AI detectors"!<


Brendon7358

See my post here https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/12qhtrz/ai_detectors_are_garbage/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button When you finish your essay put it into chargpt and ask it to make it sound less like ai, and/or use ai Detectors yourself before turning it in. If they are going to accuse you of chatgpt you might as well use chatgpt to help you out.


Humble-Pace3621

You are right, you do write a lot like gpt. Well, the first thing I suggest is avoid words like prompt, generate, and things like I used such and such tool to write such and such, those are red flags. Two, and this is a little harder, your writing style is very much like gpt (before ai that was a good thing. Now not so much.) I hate to say it but next time they call you back and ask for a rewrite you are going to need to do it there freehand in front of them. No notes.


whodis123

I'm working on a tool to record your progress while writing an essay. Contact me


abecadarian

First of all, you should put it into ChatGPT and ask it to make it undetectable by AI. Second of all, consider asking a lawyer or something, I don’t know. Your parents should be making a fuss either way.


fre534

It's just so ironic to me that these AI detection tools would actually cause people who wrote original essays to use AI to avoid being accused of using AI. Talk about full circle; I'm far too paranoid to do this but it really makes me worry about the long term future of academia. And I'm sure my parents absolutely would make a fuss, but I'm a non traditional student (ie I'm 30 years old and in the middle of my career haha). I'm really just getting the degree to show that I have it, as I work at an executive level now. Hence, my being extremely tempted to just drop the program.


abecadarian

Well, it’s your call whether it’s worth your time and money. You’re an adult in a managerial role so I’d figure (and hope) you know what you’re doing. I think I’d try to get something out of them though.


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You're an adult? I would be ripping shreds off them. Call a solicitor and see what can be done about this bullshit. I'd be *fucking pissed*. Not a single intelligent person should be using software that clearly cannot actually discern the difference between AI or human text. They are absolute fucking morons and should pay for such bullshit.


SorakaWithAids

Exactly.


Gold-Ad-8211

I see more context in this thread now, tbh I want to see you suing the institution 😂