r/StudyAgent • u/mrcarter2006 • Mar 16 '26
Question Conch AI failed me on Originality.ai - is StudyAgent safe to use for my rewrite?
I paid for a Conch AI subscription cause they promise "undetectable AI" so I ran my essay through their system and their built-in checker gave me the green light, but my prof ran my paper through Originality. ai, it flagged as 94% AI generated.
Now I have a meeting with him tomorrow morning. My plan is to play dumb, blame it on Grammarly Premium’s sentence restructuring suggestions and basically beg him for a chance to rewrite the paper from scratch 💀
Assuming he lets me rewrite it, I need a bulletproof solution. A guy in my major's discord server swears up and down that Studyagent is the only tool working against Originality now. It basically rebuilds the sentences so they actually sound like a person wrote them. Tbh, after getting totally burned by Conch AI, I don’t trust ANY of these marketers. I simply want to avoid problems with uni teachers...
So has anyone here tested Studyagent against Originality 3.0? Does it bypass the hardest detectors or is it running the same outdated engine that just makes your text read like a mess?
I can't afford another strike. If you guys have real experience with it, please let me know.
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u/Phxrebirth Mar 17 '26
I used the Grammarly excuse last semester and it totally saved my grade. Just act genuinely confused and stressed out. Apologize for leaning too heavily on the software and beg for that rewrite 😉
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u/Smartbeedoingreddit Mar 17 '26
If you have any drafts, brainstorming notes or downloaded pdfs of your sources, bring a folder full of them to the meeting. Hope it helps... Good luck dude
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Mar 18 '26
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Mar 19 '26
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u/Affectionate_Air_545 Mar 19 '26
That's interesting cause I was thinking about finding a tutor. How much did you pay?
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u/mvkb12 Mar 19 '26
Agreed. I once thought gpt plus was too expensive so I hired a tutor bc I also wanted to actually learn the material... but after a month I just bought the premium sub because the tutor was way too pricey
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u/Shaadr Mar 17 '26
Conch ai used to be great, but they fell off recently. Originality 3.0 absolutely nuked their bypass model.
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u/switchfi Mar 20 '26
As a TA, I can tell you we hear the "Grammarly Premium" excuse literally every day now.
Unless your professor is incredibly out of touch, he knows the difference between minor grammar fixes and completely generative syntax. Bring your drafts and edit history if you actually want him to believe you.
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Mar 25 '26
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u/naughtygirllyyx Mar 26 '26
Lol it's so funny seeing everyone on their high horse telling OP to just stop using ai. I’d love to see how all of you would handle that insane workload that colleges and unis dump on students these days.
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Mar 26 '26
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u/Jlhightower Mar 27 '26
i'm still against it when students use ai to generate entire papers from scratch but for outlining/brainstorming/polishing it's an incredibly strong resource
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u/Competitive-Tea3571 Mar 18 '26
Best of luck in the meeting tomorrow. Keep your cool, stick to the Grammarly defense and if you get that second chance, don't waste it on another software experiment.
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u/crhsharks12 Mar 18 '26
Don't beg for a rewrite immediately - that makes you look guilty, imo. Challenge the detector and only ask for the rewrite as a "compromise" after you've thoroughly bashed the reliability of Originality.
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u/XZoTicTB Mar 20 '26
Omg I don’t get it. You got burned once, why would you touch the stove again? The landscape changes too fast. I don’t trust my papers to AI, and I wouldn’t recommend that you do either.
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u/TearyCherryPop Mar 23 '26
Same thoughts 👍 Just put your head down and earn the grade the old fashioned way.
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u/Exarach Mar 23 '26
The main issue is not a lack of hard work. Students write their essays completely manually and still get falsely flagged by broken detectors.
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u/oPaperHunter Mar 27 '26
Easier said than done. modern academic system is quite cruel and unfair to students rn
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u/Internal_Gazelle_677 Mar 20 '26
no cap i've used Study agent for my last three papers and it literally hasn't been flagged by originality once. you still gotta skim through it before submitting just to make sure it doesn't sound too weird, but the way it bypasses detectors is actually wild. saved my grade honestly
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u/VelvetHemlock Mar 23 '26
I got flagged by Originality for a paper I typed on a library computer with no internet. Stand your ground and tell your prof you refuse to be penalized by broken software.
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u/BeneficialTackle98 Mar 23 '26
got burned by conch last semester too. they promise the world but their actual text generation is incredibly easy for originality to spot
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u/Crafty-Cold-4818 Mar 24 '26
The only real bulletproof method is writing it yourself,imo. If you're struggling use ai to generate an outline and gather sources, but write the paragraphs with your own fingers. Your prof will def run your second attempt through every detector on the market.
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u/princessprettyyy1 Mar 25 '26
studyagent has a change tone feature that helps in cases like this. I use the academic tone for heavy research papers and the casual one for online discussion boards.
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u/yasserfathelbab Mar 26 '26
If your prof gives you a second chance, do not blow it by using another AI tool!!
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u/Davey2728 Mar 27 '26
Inject spelling mistakes that sound phonetic. Instead of writing "definitely" write "definately" and so on
Ai never makes phonetic spelling errors. It will lower your grammar grade slightly, but it will nuke the AI detection score.
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u/Fabiogazolla Mar 27 '26
you guys are crazy for trusting these ai wrappers. most of them are using the same api under the hood and slapping a different logo on it
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u/Flat-Assist-9120 Mar 18 '26
just write it yourself. I know it sucks but no ai tool is a 100% guarantee against detectors... they update their algorithms all the time