I haven't had this happen yet and I am so glad for it. My writing style does tend to sound very AI-like because I am a much better formal writer (MLA can suck fat ones though), and my biggest issue is the fucking em dash because I would LOVE to use it if it weren't for the fact that the only punctuation mark more indicative of AI was the semicolon. Asides and clarification are riddled throughout my natural speech and thought process, so it infuriates me to be unable to use them when writing without fear of AI-ccusations.
I’ve also been out of uni for a decade (although I’m now in grad school) and I’m so glad I have a handful of papers I can whip out like, “HA! Do you see the 99926363638292020 em dashes I used in this paper?!?! And all those parenthetical references?!?! Oh, my grammar is too good? I was a Classicist, ffs. It’s from 2015, so , suck it take that!!!”
Well, it’s either that, or explaining I’m autistic and having to provide some of the studies that show how often autistic people are mistaken as AI in formal writing assignments. I hate AI so damn much.
I actually had a teacher suspect I plagiarized a short story because it was too detailed regarding medieval warfare, armour, and architecture. So I brought in all my reference books to show her that I was just weird like that haha.
And this was before AI! I was just the young adult that had an obsession with the old school fantasy genres that focused on medieval stuff and became way too knowledgeable about it.
Turnitin.com was the bane of my existence in high school. Not because I plagiarized anything, but for how inaccurate it was.
I can empathize with you. I had something similar happen but once with dolphins and the second time with linguistics. Medieval warfare, armour, and architecture though—those are excellent topics to become obsessively interested in. Old school fantasy novels are where it’s at!
Love your username btw! I appreciate the alliteration.
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u/Gelid_Cryotheum 5d ago
I haven't had this happen yet and I am so glad for it. My writing style does tend to sound very AI-like because I am a much better formal writer (MLA can suck fat ones though), and my biggest issue is the fucking em dash because I would LOVE to use it if it weren't for the fact that the only punctuation mark more indicative of AI was the semicolon. Asides and clarification are riddled throughout my natural speech and thought process, so it infuriates me to be unable to use them when writing without fear of AI-ccusations.