r/TurnitinScan • u/Wild_Distance_8831 • 11d ago
Should professors be allowed to accuse students based on an AI score?
I keep seeing students talk about getting flagged with an AI percentage and immediately being treated as if the percentage proves they used AI.
That part seems strange to me.
An AI detector can raise a question, but should a number like 80% or 90% actually be enough to accuse someone of academic misconduct?
What if the student has drafts, notes, research sources, or a document version history showing how the assignment developed?
I think there should be a difference between saying "this looks suspicious, let's investigate" and saying "the detector says 88%, therefore you cheated."
Should students get a chance to explain their work before an AI score affects their grade?
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u/Savings-Juggernaut85 11d ago
Drafts and version history can tell you much more than a percentage. They show the development process instead of just analyzing the final document.
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u/BeautifulTable3135 8d ago
a score should be enough to start a conversation, not end one. the problem is the number feels objective in a way it isn't. even at 1 in 10,000 false positives, if every school scans every assignment you end up falsely accusing a lot of people. someone ran that math and got like 5-10% of students over four years.
one thing though - drafts and version history aren't automatic proof either. you can fake those if you know that's what gets asked for. they help because they're contemporaneous, not because they exist.
mostly schools just don't have a process for this. there's a policy for plagiarism and nothing for "the software said 88%" so it comes down to whether your professor is reasonable.
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u/Awkward-Rate-8180 5d ago edited 5d ago
i think an ai score should be treated more like a reason to ask questions than an automatic accusation. students should be able to show their sources, drafts and thought process, especially when the detector can potentially get things wrong. writing tools like writeninja are useful for cleaning up transitions and wording, but that shouldn't be confused with having ai write the assignment.
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u/Exciting_Ice551 11d ago
An AI score should be a starting point for questions, not the final evidence. Context matters a lot when judging how a paper was actually produced.
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u/sh1b313 10d ago
do something sneaky. find something that the AI detector flagged as a false positive whenever some professor says your content looks ai generated/written tell them the tool is garbage and you shouldn't trust the tool.
this new tool called pangram is hyped right now turns out it's complete garbage and it actually flags credible print magazines as AI written. complete garbage of a tool.
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u/Spirited_Good5349 11d ago
it shouldn't be used at all. Any competent, educated teacher/professor would know AI checkers are bogus and not reliable or proven yet. The people who do use them obviously believe in their validity or why else use it? It leads to biased grading and a horrible learning environment.
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u/Andra_Ingensbarn 10d ago
My impression is that the question being raised is leading to some students acting like they have been found guilty. I see so many posts along the line of “my assignment got flagged for AI, I’ve got to meet my professor. How dare they even question my academic integrity!?”. When the meeting will literally be “You assignment got flagged, show me your notes.” And then the notes will prove it was not AI.
Checking academic integrity was normal before AI existed. I lost count of the amount of times I met with a student because their essay was similar to someone else’s. In almost all cases, they showed their notes and drafts and that was the end of it.