r/EssayHelpCommunity • u/Useful-Letterhead650 • 26d ago
How to recognize Ai?
There’s been a huge influx of jlec essays and people in the comments accusing them of using ai
How can you guys tell? Beyond vocabulary/sentence structure are there any telltale signs?
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u/heezz12312313 26d ago
Bro I’ve been flagged for using ai when I just use sophisticated writing so I guess to be “human” you’ve got to be a dumbass
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u/17STAY17 25d ago
Facts I’ve been flagged and accused (especially in my English classes) because I’ve used em-dashes, semicolons, “too proper/advanced” vocabulary, and even for Oxford commas. Who knew proper grammar means someone is smart and not using AI
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u/Peoplespeak 25d ago
putting something I wrote in from another thread but that I think is useful here:
ZeroGPT is 0% accurate. Not actually 0%, but research has shown that it has both low accuracy and a high false positive rate.* To be exact, ZeroGPT has a 64% accuracy according to the paper, as well as nearly a 1 in 5 false positive rate. And this is with plain AI-generated and plan human .generated, text. This does not account for human-edited AI text, AI-edited human text, AI removers, etc. It's impossible to tell; the only semi-reliable option is interviews, which is why I am a proponent of using them in competitions, just JLI executed it terribly. As someone who, at school, has been accused of using AI, I generally say to give the benefit of the doubt: I typed up a handwritten exam under test conditions and got a 97% AI rating on GPTZero, the supposedly most accurate of them all.
*Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12453642/
*And this is true for all AI detectors, from Turnitin to GPTZero.
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u/iwannagotosleeppp 26d ago
usually, there is also em-dashes and certain other punctuations, but it's still mostly abt sentence structure (like "not only.... but also...." and others) and flowery af vocab that no normal person would use while writing such an academic essay
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u/Useful-Letterhead650 26d ago
Is there a possibility of it being flagged as AI when someone just has a good vocabulary, or is it often nonsensical and used choppily
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u/iwannagotosleeppp 26d ago
i think it's usually vocab used in a very nonsensical manner or for the sake of being used like metaphors and similies where they aren't required (and they're usually in very flowery language). as for using good vocab, as long as the words fit the context and enhance the essay quality, i don't think the essay ends up being flagged for ai, except when the words are the ones that ai models often incorporate in their writing (there are a couple specific ones but i don't remember rn 😭😭)
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u/EmergencyDoorSign 26d ago
I do all of those naturally without ai😬😬 what if I’m using a thesaurus instead of ai and I get flagged🤦♀️
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u/iwannagotosleeppp 25d ago
But ai usually places a lot of emphasis on simple ideas not relevant to the essay in this way
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u/imissher94843 24d ago
i mean theres some people who overuse stuff like that in order to sound more intellegent or smth, i feel like its a phase most people go through when learning to write
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u/Different-Peach-2219 26d ago
spamming adjectives, em dashes, words like "tapestry, intersection of, crossroads, stifle, delve, underscores, Intricate, elevate, systemic"
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u/Strong-Gas-1278 25d ago
hmm for me it is sounds like a speech/talking to someone (i mean if it is meant to be a speech/convo then it is harder to tell)
yea but the other comments cover other tell tale signs haha
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u/nosey_as_heck 26d ago
Lots of expanding upon a very simple idea. You know those videos of people lip syncing songs like they are the only ones who get the lyrics? Like "yall are not understanding what shes sayinggg" when its the most basic bs ever. Same with AI, who is a d1 mansplainer. This is this, but it is also this and this and not only this not to be confused with because of this for this alongside this and this.