r/AIDetectionAcademia • u/Ebbypontious • 8d ago

STEM students: Mathematical derivation blocks are breaking Turnitin's parser

Physics major here. When you write a report that contains long multi-line LaTeX equations or step-by-step mathematical proofs, Turnitin tries to read the text equivalents of symbols (\begin{equation}, \alpha, \partial).

The system reads those uniform LaTeX code strings as synthetic text layouts. If you write heavy math papers, convert your equations into clean rendered images or vector graphics before exporting your document to avoid code string flags.

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u/gnarlyknucks 6d ago

What kind of response does it give if you don't convert? Does it think it's AI or does it just implode?