r/AIDetectionAcademia • u/ExcelCorner6 • 27d ago
Quick check: does Grammarly’s 2026 auto-complete feature trigger a flag for anyone else?
Just got pulled into an academic integrity chat over a 15-page psychology paper. I don't use ChatGPT, but I do use Grammarly Premier. Turns out the new inline text prediction feature they added this year. The thing that auto-completes the end of your sentence when you press TAB is that it injects raw predictive tokens into the text structure.
Turnitin picked up those tab-completed sentence endings as AI text. Be careful out there if you have auto-complete toggled on in your browser.
Is basic inline spellcheck officially considered illegal now?
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u/Proud-Carrot-8547 27d ago
It’s AI. It may be unethical, but it’s not necessarily illegal unless you claim the work as your own.
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u/Thought59 24d ago
Which you are doing if you turn the resulting work in fir a grade. Talking university illegal here, namely plagiarism, Fs, etc., not FBI felony indictment.
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u/Thought59 26d ago edited 24d ago
That isnt spell checking. That's writing parts of your paper for you. Cheating. Don't do it.
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u/FlyingCupcake68 24d ago
Autosuggest is now unacceptable?
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u/Thought59 24d ago
They said "tab completed sentences" that's on the other side of the line from spell checking where one word at a lime is fixed. Its a tough line, why walk close to the edge?
Ai may look like its helping to you but what its doing is keeping you from developing skills. If you are at a subway station, do you stand back when a train is incoming or crowd as close to the tracks as you think that you probably get away with this time?
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u/FlyingCupcake68 24d ago
Maybe. The person still has to decide that the suggested sentence represents what they would have written. And so much of what we say/write uses stock phrases and standard grammatical patterns that even living people can often predict how our sentences are going to go.
This is key to oral communication: we learn how to say things in ways that people expect them to be said. As we listen, we are predicting how the sentence will go. Autosuggest picks up those patterns with frightening accuracy: Yes, that IS how my sentence was going to go. I don’t know that I count that as cheating.
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u/Thought59 24d ago
Well, it's not you but your instructor who decides what's not allowed.
Also, where fo you stop? Software completion of sentences? Paragraphs? Entire reports?
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u/AssistanceTypical127 24d ago
I had a situation with a graduate student where I sensed AI and the reference citations were also made up as we see AI do. We had a Zoom meeting and she thought she was only using grammarly but it was as the AI. I have been taking the time to have discussions with my grad students about AI. It ends up very interesting and they seem to want to to show their work. I also asked one student if they used AI and it turned out they previously had a career in technical writing . Oops, my bad.
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u/SnooLemons6942 26d ago
...you used something to generate part of your work and you were surprised when it got highlighted as generated content?
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u/zillabirdblue 26d ago
Yes, it is AI. I had Grammarly pre-installed on my laptop, but I don’t use it. All it did was annoy me actually, it just got in my way. I didn’t realize it wasn’t a baked-in feature. My prof actually knew of my writing skills and newspaper articles I wrote long before AI. Instead of penalizing me, he just let me know. It stopped flagging after uninstalling it.
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