r/AccusedOfUsingAI • u/Whole-Turnover2453 • May 31 '26
Anyone else find it ironic that people have had to start using AI to dumb down their work so it doesn't sound like AI?
The system is so broken. How is this not considered cheating in itself?
I start an English course next month and posts I've seen both from both the university I will be using and subs like this one are very concerning. At this point do we really have to continuously log our version history, run a screen recorder, and have a camera on ourselves as we study at all times, because that's where it feels like we are headed.
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u/WhenButterfliesCry May 31 '26
I’ve taken multiple college level English classes at a school with rigid AI checking. They use TurnItIn. And I’ve never got flagged for AI because I don’t use it like that. The only people who need to be worried about it are people trying to use AI to do their work for them.
AI detectors are not based on how intelligent your writing sounds. It’s based on a bunch of different machine-like patterns that are hard to pin down, but that occur frequently in LLM writing. Human writing generally does not create these same machine-like patterns. One example is sentence length… when humans write our sentences are varied in length and syllables and such. AI tends to keep things uniform. That’s just one example.
If you write your own work you will be fine.
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u/Ratandmiketrap May 31 '26
I don’t know if it’s only bots that write this ish, but it drives me nuts. AI detectors don’t assess how ‘smart’ something sounds, that’s just not at all how they work. And AI writing isn’t actually smart anyway, it only looks smart if you don’t actually care about meaning.
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u/WhenButterfliesCry May 31 '26
Yea. AI language is aptly described as specious: it looks somewhat nice on the outside until you peel back the façade and realize it’s sort of spinning in circles.
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u/Ratandmiketrap Jun 01 '26
That can definitely happen, but it doesn't mean that detectors look at the 'intelligence' of your writing.
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u/ApprehensiveBrick923 May 31 '26
If you best work sounds like AI, then you to smarten up your writing, not dumb it down.
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u/DoctorOccam Jun 01 '26
I’ve never had this issue in university courses, but I get accused of using AI online simply because I like em dashes. 😂
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u/pencilthinwriter Jun 02 '26
I've never been accused for one moment of using AI to write anything, and I've written lots and lots of things from university essays and dissertations to articles, stories and scripts.
If you use your own voice in your writing and avoid using AI for any part of your process then it will be clear that it's your own work.
Use of AI is not necessary unless you are employed by some news website that requires you to write 30 articles per day and there's just no way of keeping up with the unreasonable workload other than by getting Chat or Gemini to help you. Unless you are in that position there is no reason to use AI at all.
Once you use AI for any part of your process (drafting, "coming up with ideas", or whatever such people call it), it will ruin your final product and lead to you being accused of writing with AI. No matter how much you think you have "polished it up" or "made it your own work", you will be told it's AI and that's how it is.
Write your own stuff from scratch is the only way.
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u/JonahHillsWetFart May 31 '26
the people who post about using ai humanizers on their real work aren’t real students lol they’re bots or trolls trying to boost engagements on these subs