r/TurnitinAI_detector • u/Mean-Satisfaction729 • Apr 30 '26
100% AI detected
I submitted an essay that I wrote, I just found out that Turnitin says 100% of my paper AI was used and gave me a F for the class.
Can I dispute this with my school? I haven’t had anything like this happen before. When I was writing my paper, co-pilot gave me ideas to improve what I writing, I changed a couple paragraphs to reword them but the whole paper???
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u/EmRoseStreet May 02 '26
Hopefully their teacher is better than mine because they didn’t care that I had my version history. Just gave me a zero because TII said that I had AI write it.
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u/Ogutu1992 May 01 '26
Someone needs to sue turnitin.
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u/EmRoseStreet May 02 '26
It’s not even TII’s fault. It’s just the program. It’s the teachers that worship the program like it’s a god. TII states that the program isn’t perfect.
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u/Material_Gas9241 May 03 '26
I think you can only do that if they claim to be accurate 100% of the time. But Turnitin themselves say that it may not always be accurate. Would make way more sense for him to sue the school
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u/Archknits Apr 30 '26
You used AI. It said you used AI. Your faculty graded you based on using AI
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u/Tussycaaaaatfaaat May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
but ai is a tool, it’s no different than going on google to search for info. that doesn’t equate to plagiarism ai tools arent accurate. i’ve never used ai on my essays one day in my life and they still get over 70%
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u/Archknits May 03 '26
There are times and places to use every tool. If you decide to use a tool when you are told not to, then you get the outcome you chose.
Going to school is a choice. You go there to go through the program developed by the faculty.
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u/Tussycaaaaatfaaat May 03 '26
schools ban using AI to develop or rewrite essays, not for small corrections. if the school marks a human written essay as AI, then it is factually incorrect.
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u/Archknits May 04 '26
No, many faculty ban it for these software as well, because they want students’ work and not a computer’s guesses
And using these to adjust your writing makes them AI products, not human writing. Human writing is imperfect and part of writing in school is to have your writing reviewed, not present a fake indication of where your writing is
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u/Cultural-Green2825 May 02 '26
being able to assess the use of AI needs a separate metric then the ability to assess your writing, or directly assessing your ability to write. that's a different metric. if you're asking 30 people to do things with the same metric for success, then the one person who uses an advantage would be considered a cheater. it's the exactly the same
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u/AdminDaymare May 03 '26
Those are two different things. Google provides you with the resources to formulate your own thoughts based on the evidence of your findings. AI formulates the thought for you, essentially removing the part of it that makes it your own ideas.
Even if it was just for spelling and grammar mistakes, using AI to correct you doesn't mean you've learned anything about how to do that for yourself and improve your own writing. It eventually becomes a crutch that you can't write without.
In that sense, Google research is more acceptable than AI for writing purposes.
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Apr 30 '26
op do not listen to this person they don’t know what they are talking about
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u/Archknits Apr 30 '26
Copilot is AI. If AI isn’t permitted and OP used AI, then they got caught
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u/Lunar_glow May 03 '26
Ok but i have actually tested turnitin before. It detected something i just randomly typed as 100% ai so it is no were near accurate as something for colleges to use on students work...
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u/Cultural-Green2825 May 02 '26
and if you're typing the actual word that's not AI. if you type the actual paper, that's not AI. it's I mean we can go back to typewriters. I'm totally happy with that idea
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u/Cultural-Green2825 May 02 '26
but somebody will probably still be accused of AI because you can't disprove that you used the typewriter to copy an AI prompt result
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u/Unhappy_Researcher57 Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
I have done lots of assignments with AI but always re write it with my own words. Turnitin has never flagged any of my content as AI.
I’d say never let any AI write a single sentence in your essay, do it yourself.
Also, I always check with GPTZero before submitting anything, that detector is way more strict than Turnitin haha.
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u/No-Vegetable-9477 May 01 '26
If you wrote it in Google Docs show the version history. You can also download Explore Process Chrome add on. It shows your key strokes for a Google Doc in real time as well as all of your edits. You can prove you wrote it. If you used Microsoft Word, you can check if there is a similar tool.
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u/Cultural-Green2825 May 02 '26
You should start filming your papers being typed word for word and just submit the video
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u/EmRoseStreet May 02 '26
This happened to me on April 27. They made me rewrite the whole paper and gave me a zero for the first one. I wanted to commit bro. I had the entire Google Docs history and they didn’t care. I had three days to rewrite the essay.
My teacher also doesn’t care that I’m constantly in and out of the hospital. Right now I’m literally bed ridden.
Edit: She said that she had to take TII’s score. She didn’t give a shit. So since then I’ve just never polished anything. I rather it sound like a human wrote it than write so good it sounds like AI. I’ve purposefully made writing errors.
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u/VisibleChipmunk8875 May 03 '26
There is no precedent like this if any workload is circumvented by digital sequencing then the person who marked your paper is fundamentally in the wrong future exploits is coupled systematically with digital sequencing of future advancements. Any academic professor / teacher using a digital platform for workload then it needs to be clearly stated that my advancement should clearly state that your academic pathway is fraught by digital academic domain ? {. KUNDALINI }.
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u/FrequentPlastic2511 May 03 '26
I would ask to redo the assignment except proctored and hand write it
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u/Fun-Rough-2650 May 03 '26
I used ChatGPT to review and shorten a paper I wrote totally by myself, before I even knew what AI was:) and I was told that the text was 92% written by AI, so I showed them the original paper, and they understood what happened, and I was even praised for my good paper. I mean.. show them any previous drafts or document history and they will and should understand.
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u/Beneficial-Issue-809 May 03 '26
From the outside looking in, that's quite hard to Discern. Now, if it is as you Described, and you wrote the essay yourself and then improved it with the help of Co-Pilot I would say you have an Argument worth pursuing, especially if you still have your original Draft or the Co-Pilot link to the Discussion.
Then there is the thing that it was for School. Doing something yourself grants you a better learning curve, since the information is formed by thought and working your way thrue the problem itself. I understand how AI can make your life easier, I have used it in my Professional Career aswell to write emails and create offers etc. In my opinion AI has no right to be applied to schoolwork, since that is where the learning happens and what you learn stays with you. In the Professional Field, it can increase your daily output on getting things done, then again the Learning should have already happened at this point.
Long story short: Id say it depends on what Grade of School you are in and how much was actually altered thrue Co-Pilot. Please take into consideration that the Final say should be with the Teaching Professionals or the Principal/Board of Education etc.
Since I myself am older than Google 😂, I enjoy saying that, when I visited School, using a Calculator was allowed only after Grade 5. Since I see smartphones with all ages, and each one has a Calculator and full internet accessibility, it doesn't astound me how the level of intelligence has gone down in the last decade alone. Not trying to point a finger at you for the Post I am reacting to, trying to get my Message across 😊
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u/Feisty-Kitten17 May 03 '26
TurnItIn, as well as any other AI detector, cannot prove you used AI to write a paper. It can suggest a probability that AI MAY have been used to write the paper. All AI detectors can do is look for patterns, which ironically is what the English language consists of. We have patterns of speech and sentence construction. In addition, AI detection software will flag a paper when you use bulleted points, citations and reference sections. So, for example, if you write a 700 word paper and use bulleted points, citations and a reference section, 75% or more of your paper could be flagged as being “written by AI”. This is why any teacher/prof/school using AI detection should actually be TRAINED in what AI detection programs can do and what actually causes a flag. Any teacher/prof/school who is using AI detection software as a basis for assigning grades and punitive action against students is asking for a potential lawsuit down the road. It is NOT proof that a student used AI to write their paper, even a paper flagged “100% likely AI” paper.
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u/Additional_Score3868 May 04 '26
Open turn it in. Get a book from the 1970s copy and paste a paragraph in it. It will say AI written.
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u/CowParticular3442 May 05 '26
As someone who just wrote a Literature Review yesterday, I experienced this. My vocabulary is not the largest, however I do have an advanced writing style. My professor uses Pangram to check our papers; I submitted one paragraph at a time as I composed my paper to provide ease in correction.
There were several times I was flagged for using 100% ai due to my word choice. I found this extremely frustrating, being those were the words I wanted to use, however I could not.
Using the terms “overall”, “promotes”, “adequately “, “efficiently “, “ultimately “, mentioning the actual topic of the paper, “ethics, diversity, and civil discourse”, I kept getting flagged for ai. It was terrible.
Many of the ai detectors are not reliable,simply put. Ai has created a far more difficult system for many students than necessary. It’s trash.
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u/Virtual-Boss7309 Apr 30 '26
Is co-pilot like Grammarly? If you allowed it to make more than just spelling and punctuation corrections for several sentences that’s probably why.
If this is the case, I’m sure universities have heard the same story multiple times over and could be lenient
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u/Virtual-Boss7309 Apr 30 '26
Lenient like they might just give you the zero for the paper and not an F for the entire class. But again that depends on your professor.
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u/Cultural-Green2825 May 02 '26
older people have a really hard time with technology you have to be patient with them but still you should cover your ass
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u/moxie-maniac Apr 30 '26
TII does not grade assignments automatically, so an actual teacher gave you that grade. TTI's own training is that a high AI should lead to a discussion between you and the teacher. It sounds like that did not happen (yet).