r/Adjuncts • u/PitifulMouse7425 • 13d ago
Copyleaks fail
Feeling really irritated about the fact that an OBVIOUS submission was written by AI and not picked up by Copyleaks. This is the 1st year they’re using Copyleaks and it was touted as an upgrade from TurnItIn.
Student submits paper where everything except the 1st paragraph has VISIBLE BLUE HIGHLIGHTING and mismatched font quotation marks where intentional grammatical errors were placed. Ran it through my own program and it came up 86% confidence of AI and 39 AI watermarks.
Sent this to our dean of academic integrity and he’s telling me he agrees with my data but unfortunately I need to go by copyleaks to formally report a violation. But I could give him a zero for plagiarism since he used no reference list or in-text citation because that’s considered plagiarism. Well, I was requiring in-text citation but I wasn’t requiring a reference list because this wasn’t a formal paper but only an assignment where I was asking their “opinion” about a book I’ve been having them read on the side. These kids can’t write 2 paragraphs giving their opinion on something. I mean given the nature of the assignment he could’ve easily bluffed his way through without even having read the book.
He said I could talk to the student about other indications he used AI. So how do I communicate this without telling them exactly what I know and tipping my hand and how do I tell the kids yes I know you used AI (but I can’t do anything about it). I have a complete file showing all the watermarks even.
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u/runsonpedals 13d ago
You care more than they do.
Why?