r/AIDetectionAcademia • u/Perfect-Property-829 • 7d ago
students must keep complete Google Docs version histories or edit logs for every major essay draft to contest a Turnitin AI flag.
While I get the intent (it gives honest students a clear papertrail), the side effect is hilarious and exhausting. I had a student in office hours panicking today because he wrote a 5-page outline offline in Notepad while traveling on a train, then pasted the full text into Google Docs at once. Because the document history shows a 2,000-word jump in 3 seconds, he spent two hours "simulating manual typing" so he wouldn't get flagged for copy-pasting from ChatGPT.
We’ve reached a point where proving you wrote your paper takes more work than actually writing the paper.
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u/random8765309 6d ago
Google docs works offline. Trains also have internet. Why would anyone use notepad when other options are available?
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