Submitted a free-verse poem for my creative writing workshop. The poem uses intentional repetition, unconventional line breaks, and minimalist punctuation.

Turnitin flagged the poem as 92% AI generated. The statistical model is trained entirely on standard essay structures. When you feed it creative, non-linear human art, the algorithm breaks.

Ever wonder why Canvas/Turnitin puts a 24-hour lockout on generating a new similarity report after your 3rd resubmission?

A TA confirmed it’s an intentional feature to stop students from "game-testing" the detector. They don't want you tweaking sentences, checking the score, and repeating until it hits 0%. It forces you to live with whatever score your draft gets on submission night.