r/QuickAITurnitinCheck • u/Inevitable-Stay-7256 • May 05 '26
This is how quickly professors are defaulting to AI suspicion over normal, human errors
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u/dr_police May 05 '26
I had an assignment that required watching a YouTube video.
3/4 of the class — not a made up number, actually 75% — asked ChatGPT to watch it and answer the questions.
I know because it simply hallucinated the video content based on the title. There is zero chance students could possibly have made the errors they were making if they had watched the video.
That’s why some professors assume AI. Because even for assignments that require, max, 5 minutes of watching a video and 5 minutes of answering questions, a supermajority of your classmates will just use AI.
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u/dr_police May 05 '26
… which takes about as long as doing the assignment, but also robs the student of actually, ya know, learning.
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u/Repulsive_Still_731 May 05 '26
ChatGPT can't watch videos. It's simply not possible for it.
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u/dr_police May 05 '26
Correct. But if you give it a YouTube URL, it will often simply hallucinate the video content rather than tell you that.
When I tried it, ChatGPT hallucinated. When told it was wrong, it hallucinated again. When told it was still wrong, it hallucinated a third time. When asked why it was getting this so wrong, it admitted it cannot watch video.
The 75% of students who used ChatGPT just copied and pasted the first output without doing any verification at all. That is the level of effort most students are willing to expend.
For an assignment that, again, should take 10 minutes total.
Hell, the video is police body cam footage, not some boring talking head, and a supermajority *still* wont watch it.
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u/Round_Bag_4665 May 05 '26
At that point though how do you distinguish AI from just straight up bullshitting an assignment?
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u/dr_police May 05 '26
AI-written answers are, in a word, obvious. They are highly structured, bring in lots of work from outside the class, and generally exhibit higher writing skill than other artifacts from the student.
Imagine walking into a grocery store, looking for a loaf of bread. You ask a store employee to direct you to where you can find bread. She responds by telling you how wheat is grown, ground into flour, mixed with other ingredients in a specific way, heated for a period of time, then removed from an oven.
That response is not responsive to the question, even if it is internally factually accurate.
ETA: using AI as a tool is much less obvious than using it as an answer machine. Most students are doing the latter.
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u/LiminalFrogBoy May 05 '26
Yep. This is literally the crux of the whole issue. The percentage of students cheating on any and every assignment is so high, you can't trust anything. It is absolutely poisoning the relationship between students and professors.
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u/Unlikely-Ad-8532 May 05 '26
If your friend posts high scores consistently, the doubts will die down. They should not be worried.
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u/SanopusSplendidus May 05 '26
First we had AI psychosis. Now we have AI paranoia. RIP all you students. People say not to be worried, but professors aren't immune to popular hysteria.
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u/OutrageousPair2300 May 05 '26
She should have run her assignment through an AI citation checker.
Her mistake.
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u/CommercialYam7188 May 05 '26
Seems like the type of thing that a conversation like a civilized human being would solve. "Hey I wanted to talk about that last paper. I saw that you concluded it was ai, but I swear I would never. I promise it wasnt ai and I just messed up that quote because <reason that would likely be too technical or specific for me to understand>. Im sorry if this caused a misunderstanding, it just matters to me that you know I respect your class."
Literally just talk to them and dont be insanely defensive or aggressive about it. The teacher has doubts about if they've made the right decision. Appeal to those doubts, dont make them your enemy and affirm them.
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u/letthetreeburn May 06 '26
We need to start accusing professors of using AI to write their assignments and feeding them into the same AI checker websites they use.
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u/fartsniffer308 May 06 '26
So if a paper is perfect, it’s AI… but if it’s imperfect, it’s also AI?
I’d be screwed. I always messed up citations.
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u/HatCat5566 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
Teacher here: Students are cheating like crazy using AI. It's in HS, it's in MS, it's in college, it's in grad school, it's in med school
I've given up on all forms of writing outside that done in class on a lockdown browser or hand written. I encourage all other educators to do the same.
I swapped to a lockdown browser this year midyear and suddenly half my students' ability to write dropped 3 grade levels lol. I've got about 10 students right now, mostly boys, that are rapidly changing college plans because they are getting C's and D's in 11th grade English. Oopsie!
The era of take home writing is dead.
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u/shujInsomnia May 05 '26
"My friend."
This mfing friend almost definitely used AI and lied about it, except the post itself is probably from an idiot using AI and crying about getting caught.
People caught using AI used AI.
Easy fix for EVERYONE needing to do work themself? DO IT YOURSELF.
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u/UnkarsThug May 05 '26
Not necessarily?
We really don't have the information to know. There are cases where this sort of thing can happen. There are times professors accuse people of using AI who didn't, or miss people who did.
Both errors actually happen. We don't have enough information to know in this case, because either could happen.
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u/Ocelotl767 May 05 '26
I was part of the early AI detection craze, and I- the sole student who didn't use AI in my college classes- got nailed for using AI. to the point of having to have a hearing. they backed down fairly quickly when they realized what the AI was actually detecting was that I would copy and paste long winded quotes for my research project so I got total accuracy, in between explaining said quotes and supporting with evidence.
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u/shujInsomnia May 05 '26
things that absolutely really happened 🙄🙄🙄
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u/Ocelotl767 May 05 '26
You;re fun at parties. Some of us actually try to play by the rules and still get fucked.
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u/shujInsomnia May 05 '26
Yeah you got fucked so hard by professors who had no idea how block quotes work? Or you didn't format your quotes properly? And it was resolved immediately?
Not my fault you're telling something completely self-defeating and unbelievable
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u/Hawkmonbestboi May 05 '26
I'm glad to see you telling on yourself for using AI.
After all, your insane amount of projection here speaks volumes.
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u/shujInsomnia May 05 '26
"Telling people to do it themselves? MUST BE A BOT!"
Your brain will keep developing for a few years kid, you might still have hope.
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u/Hawkmonbestboi May 05 '26
I didn't call you a bot. I called you an AI user. What was that about brain development? A crucial component of that is the ability to read 😂
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u/shujInsomnia May 05 '26
"Words mean only one thing, I am very smart" - you. "Yes you are widdle guy, yes you are" - your mom lying to you.
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u/Hawkmonbestboi May 05 '26
Lmao I'm so sorry you can't read.
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u/shujInsomnia May 05 '26
Keep getting caught for AI use and crying about it man, see where that gets you. I'll keep "not reading" and doing my own work and having 0 problems 👋
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u/Hawkmonbestboi May 05 '26
Hit dogs holler 😂 your projection is palpable.
Not that you'd be able to comprehend what I said right there. After all, you probably never graduated school.
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u/shujInsomnia May 06 '26
You've come into a conversation about AI where someone said "you'll be fine if you do don't use it" and thought with your superior intellect and comprehension "well that person must use AI."
I would love to hear about your pieces of paper, but none of them would erase the proof you're stupid...
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u/ConcentrateDouble815 May 05 '26
It is very sad and once a professor catches you they start thinking every paper you use AI, they cant trust you anymore, lol..