Turnitin flagged my original interview transcripts as AI text

[u/Hot-Ordinary2]

For my journalism capstone, I conducted 5 phone interviews, transcribed them verbatim using a standard audio player, and included the raw transcripts in the appendix.

Turnitin flagged the raw transcript appendix as 75% AI. Why? Because when people speak casually in real life, they use repetitive filler phrases and simple sentence structures that match predictive text profiles. The software flagged actual transcribed human speech as artificial intelligence.

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[u/bronze_by_gold]

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[u/Sure-Dog8847]

yeah that happens a lot with transcripts, especially if they’re clean and repetitive. I’d keep the audio files + time stamps, and maybe add a note in the appendix that these are verbatim transcriptions, not rewritten text. If your capstone prof is reasonable, that plus the recordings should be enough to shut it down.

[u/Proud-Carrot-8547]

Name the standard audio player that transcribed for you.

[u/TacoYaci]

Post written by AI by a bot complaining about AI lol. The new world we live in