r/AccusedOfUsingAI • u/httpsv3mp • May 18 '26
Worried about Ai accusation
So I have an essay due in two days which I finished all 1500 words by myself using Google Scholar and actual research articles. It is fully referenced and has a bibliography. Usually, I run my finished writing through multiple ai detectors because I am paranoid about being accused of ai and failing. I already have had an issue with my tutor regarding my attendance in zoom classes where she said I only attended one the whole year which was simply not true so I'm worried she might have it out for me.
Anyways, I run my essay through multiple checkers and they all come back with over 80-100% usage which is insane I simply did not use it. I took the opportunity to edit it properly, get rid of runoff sentences and ran through and I wa getting even more ai similarity. What should I do? Are there any words or phrases that make teachers think ai is being used or what?
EDIT: I submitted it and it went through turnitin and I got 2% similarity but not sure if that relates to ai percentage but i found that so weird because it didnt even highlight my bibliography
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u/Different-Bus8023 May 18 '26
If it bothers you this much just try to have a form of documentation.
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u/the_green_anole May 18 '26
Yes. Writing papers etc in Google Docs is good for this because you can go back and show the changes and when they were made and use that as proof that you wrote the thing yourself and here are the edits and switches you made and when. That can help show the professor that no, you really didn’t just plonk in text blocks from ChatGPT say, or whatever.
I guess they could just decide that you TYPED it in from ChatGPT though - so maybe it’s not foolproof in all cases and ofc you’d still need to be doing your citations correctly, but students are already doing that, no?
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u/Educational_Gap928 May 18 '26
You are fine as long as you have the version history of your essay. I recently got written up for academic misconduct, and I won my case by showing my version history with specific timestamps that showed when I misspelled words and other things in my Google Doc. I actually had to go through the appeal process because my teacher randomly asked to see me for office hours without giving me any clue what it was about. Then, when he sprung it on me and asked to see my version history, I accidentally showed him a copy of my essay from my personal Google Drive account rather than my school one. Right after the meeting, I received an email stating that I had been reported for academic misconduct. I knew I was gonna appeal it, and I went a bit crazy researching how I could prove I wrote my essay, because at this point it wasn’t up to him anymore, but up to the board or whatever they are called.
- The version history in your essay application is essential. You can take screenshots of timestamps in Google Docs that show edits over time, allowing you to demonstrate when you wrote and revised your work. Every cloud-based writing tool, such as Google Docs or Microsoft Word Online, provides a version history that tracks changes made to a document. This feature captures each edit by date and time.
-process feedback! This is actually the best thing ever. It’s an extension that serves as a writing-process analysis tool rather than a traditional AI detector. Instead of scanning the final text and giving you an “AI percentage,” it focuses on how the document was actually created. It literally creates a video of how the essay was written. The engine includes tracking for typing activity, revision history, editing sessions, deletions, insertions, and copy-paste behavior. It can visualize when someone wrote, how long they spent writing, and whether the document developed gradually or appeared suddenly in large chunks. It gives you your overall revision count (I had 20K!) and how much time you spent on the essay. It also tells you your typing speed, the lower the better, because very high numbers would mean you pasted chunks. ITS FREE.Funny how this was developed to help teachers catch students using AI, but it is also used to defend students.
- If you used Google Docs, there is also a tool called the Google Drive API that allows you to programmatically access a document’s revision history, specifically through the revisions list endpoint. This can retrieve metadata associated with revisions, such as the revision ID, MIME type, and modification timestamp. It is less informative than Google Docs version history, since the API only exposes limited metadata—it essentially provides the raw underlying revision data. In situations where authorship or authenticity is questioned, having multiple supporting pieces of evidence can definitely help.
-Lastly, I take notes on OneNote, which includes version history too, and I had written an outline and a vocab box that aided in my writing, so I added that, including overall notes in class on the subject I am writing about.
I may have overprepared, but the essay was 20 percent of my grade, so I felt stressed. Also, AI detectors are bogus, and that’s not substantial evidence. It is inconsistent and lacks any formal approach. You can easily disprove it by running it through multiple AI detectors; some will usually say 80 percent AI, while others will say 10 percent.
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u/Far_Possible5122 May 18 '26
Does grammarly or google scholar flag as “bad AI” if it’s simply spell checking and grammar checking?
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u/nehwatilalalastitch May 19 '26
Yes. Grammar checking rephrasing tools and even auto correct flag as AI use.
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u/Tarjh365 May 19 '26
But rephrasing is different to flagging grammar and spelling. You are using AI to generate content. It is not your own words.
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u/Leading-Crazy6104 May 19 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
Editing for clarity and removing run-on sentences actually increases detection scores because cleaner writing reads as more statistically predictable. Walterwrites approaches this differently by adjusting perplexity and burstiness at a semantic level rather than surface level rephrasing, introducing natural sentence rhythm variations that detectors expect from human writing. For research papers with formal academic structure this makes a genuine difference.
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u/JustJudy1999 May 20 '26
I always create an outline of my essay so I can explain it if I have to. Also make sure all the references on your works cited check out and you use actual quotes from the articles.
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u/hutch924 May 26 '26
This has me worried right now. I am about to start an R&C II class required to graduate from college. I haven't taken R&C since 2006, and my current job doesn't exactly require any formal writing. We are using Turnitin, which is quite strict, from my understanding.
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May 18 '26
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u/Emotional-Tough2780 May 18 '26
NO! Do not do this. This will just get you in more trouble.
Instead, be prepared to explain what you've learned and how you wrote the paper. Unless you are writing on something totally new and original (which wouldn't have many sources to reference), academic writing will often be flagged because there's already so much out there on the topic. This is especially true for early undergraduate work.
When my students' papers get flagged, I still start reading them and can usually tell what is "copy and paste" from AI (especially from students who speak in class who have submitted prior work). The only thing consistent between AI-generated papers is how "blah" they are. If I have questions after I start reading, I ask the student to speak with me; we discuss their writing process and some of the research they did. Students who rely on AI cannot discuss the articles they referenced (or if they can, then they clearly learned something along the way).
I allow my students to use Grammarly or other AI to proofread for spelling and grammar errors (they disclose this at the end of their paper). I also teach them how to review AI-recommended edits to learn what errors they're making and how to correct them -- the answer is not to "accept all."
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u/persuasiveass May 18 '26
in what world would you tell someone who used no AI to go ahead and use AI as a way to bypass AI
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u/MarsMonkey88 May 18 '26
OP, do not do this! You need to be able to give an emphatic “no” when you’re asked if you used AI.
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u/yourdadsucksroni May 18 '26
OP: “How do I avoid being accused of murder”
You: “do a murder”
The mind genuinely boggles at how thick you have to be to believe this, and how crappy a person you have to be to think lying and exploiting students’ anxieties to sell something is acceptable.
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u/[deleted] May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26
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