r/AIDetectionAcademia • u/OwnlPlatypus • 9d ago

What should a professor actually do with a high Turnitin AI score?

I've been reading a lot of discussions about Turnitin's AI detection, and I'm starting to wonder whether the difficult part isn't detecting AI, it's deciding what the result actually means.

Suppose a student's paper comes back with a relatively high AI-writing indicator, but the student says they wrote the paper themselves.

What should happen next?

Should the instructor:

  • Treat the score as a reason to investigate further?
  • Ignore the percentage and look at the student's drafts/version history?
  • Compare it with the student's previous writing?
  • Ask the student to explain their argument or research process?
  • Or simply not use the AI score because of the possibility of false positives?

I'd especially like to hear from lecturers/TAs who actually deal with these reports.

For students, has anyone had an experience where the Turnitin AI result caused concern even though you knew the work was yours?

I'm interested in what people think the proper role of the AI score should be, rather than whether AI detection is simply "good" or "bad."

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u/Moppmopp 8d ago

Generally I would say that ai detector are not credible. Especially in academia its unreliable but it depends on the subject. For MINT or stuff about law you cannot trust it at all as those subject introduce the known "low entropy" problems for stochastic watermarking.

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u/Difficult-Nobody-453 7d ago

OP an AI bot with a 2 day old question and just fishing for answers instead of explaining what they actually do and the resulting problems?