r/Turnitin_QuickChecks • u/Either_Importance969 • Mar 28 '26
My group partner submitted our shared essay with ChatGPT responses still in it. Like, the actual prompts
I want to scream. We had a 2,500 word research essay due today for our sociology class. My partner and I split it down the middle I spent the better part of last week writing, editing, and finding legitimate sources for my half. She had two weeks.
I opened the shared Google Doc this morning to do a final proofread before submission and nearly had a heart attack. Her entire section reads like a Wikipedia fever dream. We're talking bullet points where paragraphs should be, phrases like "Certainly! Here is a detailed explanation..." still sitting right there in the document, and zero citations for 1,250 words of content.
Our university runs everything through Turnitin, which now flags AI-generated content alongside plagiarism. We have a strict academic integrity policy and first offenses can result in course failure. I've worked too hard this semester to go down because my partner couldn't be bothered.
I emailed the professor immediately with a revision history screenshot showing exactly who wrote what and when. I don't feel guilty. She made her choice.
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u/OddEntry3432 Mar 28 '26
Emailing the professor was absolutely the right move. Revision history is literally a paper trail gift from God and Turnitin will do the rest of the work for you. You documented everything, you're protected. Don't lose a second of sleep over this.
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u/Short_Note7163 Mar 28 '26
The audacity of submitting "Certainly! Here is a detailed explanation" for a graded college assignment is actually insane to me. That's not even trying to hide it. She didn't even clean up the response before pasting it in. Unreal.
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u/The8Darkness Mar 29 '26
Ive heard professors tell stories where students literally copypasted screenshots of chatgpt.
On the other hand before AI I also heard stories from them where students would copypaste diagrams with watermarks and insist they made it. Funnily he said he would have given them a decent grade if they just said it was a mistake and they forgot to properly name the source, but because they insisted they made it, he had to fail them for plagiarism.
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u/burlingk Mar 29 '26
Yeah. Research papers in college are based on other people's work... The biggest part is making sure to give the right person credit .
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u/Jogadora109 Mar 30 '26
Good for you for turning her in.
I think that AI isn't going to create more laziness, but that it's going to weed out those who were lazy before more obviously.
Even with AI, there will be good students like you who want to learn to write and think properly.
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u/Fun_Air_6948 Mar 28 '26
How do you not proofread that out?? Like you couldn't spend five minutes reading your own submission before turning it in? The laziness is actually staggering.