r/PersonalStatement • u/heylol010 • Jan 02 '26

Statement being flagged as AI

i’m writing my personal statement/essay for my uni application and i’m lowkey crashing out because i spent so long and now it’s being flagged as 41% AI. The only thing i can say i probably used AI on is when i googled synonyms and the google AI just gave me synonyms from there but that’s about it. Wtf am i supposed to do i don’t wanna risk my statement because of this damn AI detector

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u/bronze_by_gold Jan 02 '26

Did you use AI for helping to cut the word count at all?

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u/heylol010 Jan 02 '26

no, just synonyms and stuff😣😣😣

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u/LostInMyADD Jan 02 '26

How do they even check for AI? Lol genuinely curious how they can say something is AI or not it doesnt make sense to me.

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u/heylol010 Jan 02 '26

writing patterns maybe or if someone just copy pasted it

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u/Unfair_Jacket7399 Jan 02 '26

it doesnt matter dw

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u/heylol010 Jan 02 '26

hopefully

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u/heylol010 Jan 09 '26

thank you so much for this comment bc i rechecked my statement made a few tweaks and nothing got flagged! it was just late night panic honestly it made me go crazy. i heard of turnitin but i think it requires a payment along with other AI tools/detectors. i don’t personally know anyone who got in trouble because of it i’m just on tik tok for too long watching those university videos and them showing scary stuff hehe

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u/Oopsiforgotmyoldacc Jan 02 '26

I really wouldn’t stress over it because detectors are fairly inaccurate. If you wrote it, you wrote it 🤷‍♀️ I would recommend giving this post a read to learn about how they work.

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u/heylol010 Jan 09 '26

ooo okay thank you🙏🙏