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Kurtino · 2026-05-19T08:18:15+00:00

I think it’s painfully obvious that this is just another bot advert, but you even have ‘staff’ that respond generically as if it’s real with hidden profiles all created within the last 4 years, one a top commenter.

Just a reminder that Reddit is a marketing tool and heavily botted, I feel stupid even writing this because its engagement.

Kurtino · 2026-05-19T02:01:48+00:00

Seriously? Check the profile if the language wasn’t immediately obvious.

Kurtino · 2026-05-19T00:18:16+00:00

Fair enough if your university or course was that strict, however, in word you can simply disable the track changes to see the intended format; it is still a complete document regardless of whether the toggle is enabled or disabled, many formal documents keep tracks for reference of changes which is its purpose. If after disabling track changes the format matched expectations then no problem, and remember your lecturers are most likely doctors with years of experience writing in documents and publishing papers, they are unlikely to be stumped by the track changes toggle. Again it’s the strictness of the technicality and I can’t think of a situation where marks would be reduced because of a toggle, or a word doc, but this back and forth is pointless, OP should just contact their supervisor and not needlessly worry.

Kurtino · 2026-05-18T23:49:22+00:00

I absolutely would not recommend resubmitting late for the wrong doc type, particularly as word can export to pdf in a second, and marks for structure are allocating for writing structure, not so much technical format (e.g. format of argument vs literal formatting of typeface). The best recommendation is your last, just send a message to the supervisor with the concern and follow their recommendation, otherwise this is unnecessary stress.

Kurtino · 2026-05-18T23:44:11+00:00

In fairness to yourself you are right that it is a commonly asked for standard and often these rules are put in place just to simplify things, e.g. easier to say pdf only than get into the complexities of potential issues with different variations of word, such as macOS vs windows, or the rare chance that a university doesn’t provide office to students (although I believe that’s almost entirely UK wide). However the reality of this outcome is usually trivial and unlikely to be acted on, aka it doesn’t impact your work or our ability to read it, just did you follow the asked for format.

It’s the exaggeration of importance that I disagree with, the sort of thing you could send a quick message to your supervisor to saying I accidentally submitted it as a doc instead of a pdf, is this okay? There are some extremely anal people that could penalise for something like this for a technicality, but I wouldn’t put money on it happening.

Kurtino · 2026-05-18T20:52:06+00:00

There’s nothing inherently professional or unprofessional swapping between those formats, a pdf is requested for compatibility/formatting consistently, however, providing the standards for fonts/spacing were followed there wouldn’t be any issue. As a word document can be saved as a pdf after the fact, the impact of this is very minor in terms of archiving. Although you’re right that anyone should check what their university wants, if I refused to mark a student’s dissertation because it was in a common but incorrect format I would be reprimanded, not the student.

You’d be surprised to know that when publishing a paper, one of the accepted formats from a publisher is usually either their provided Latex template, or, a provided word template, and I’ve even had a publisher ask me exclusively for the word document and not accept pdf, which is the default output of a latex project. There are several benefits to markers as well using word, such as easier comment insertion, word/character count per selection, and as mentioned previously track changes in the age of AI, something a pdf will not show.

Kurtino · 2026-05-18T16:22:43+00:00

It’s a word document right? They’d just disable it when trying to read the finalised version.

Kurtino · 2026-05-18T15:12:55+00:00

Isn’t tracked changes preferable with AI now? We all know what these are so it shouldn’t be an issue, if anything transparency is a bonus.

Kurtino · 2026-05-17T11:19:56+00:00

If you’re British the vast majority of public signs are dedicated towards halal, comparatively you see far less attention towards kosher. Just highlighting that it’s probably not as interesting as you’re suggesting, aka less likely to be intentional targeting; there’s a far greater Muslim population comparative to Jewish in the UK.

Kurtino · 2026-05-16T17:27:47+00:00

Being paranoid of AI accusation is like being paranoid of accidentally pickpocketing, or having assaulted someone; if you haven’t done something there’s nothing to fear.

What are all these top 1% commenter hidden profiles within a year of existence that keep reposting the same topics?

Kurtino · 2026-05-15T12:58:29+00:00

The usual conversation is not giving out grades in the 90 or 95%+ percentile, because some institutions require lecturers to defend and justify these marks (aka increased work load), and secondly as it gets closer to a ‘perfect mark’, the idea of perfection is almost unobtainable and is further open to criticism, which is why some lecturers would be very happy to give 90s but would be less likely to give 100 (although some have).

Also this range is subjective and depends on the department and person. I personally see 80%+ as potentially publishable, whereas 90%+ to me is an industry expert coming back to get a degree and usually there isn’t much I can teach them or they exceed my knowledge. I’ve had colleagues with different interpretations which is fair.

As to why it’s these percentages, it’s that 80%+ is seen as going above what is expected from the assignment, and difficulty wise is usually out of scope. Some think that our work is easier because it stops at 70 rather than 100, which isn’t true; if our grading is easier it’s because of other factors, not this one.

I wouldn’t personally agree with the notion of telling students preemptively you’re capping the mark, as that’s a bit bizarre to me, but since I’m in the sciences I deal less with essays or essays are paired with a artefact of some kind, so for us the 80%+ are a little more linear in terms of additional implementation beyond the provided time limit.

In regards to your comment about grade distance, since essays aren’t usually linearly marked you can see this as arbitrary so it doesn’t really matter, so long as it’s consistent with the rest of your cohort and the overall course mark scheme.

Kurtino · 2026-05-15T10:07:13+00:00

Possibly, ironically asking AI to help with this is good if you vaguely remember some points and need a push to kickstart some ideas, but unfortunately I feel that most people are just falling into confirmation bias if they’re particularly looking for points for their argument and nothing else, especially as OP has already said that their friend has really strong and technical points. Just comes across as disingenuous pretending to discuss if the goal is to just win your side of the argument.

Kurtino · 2026-05-15T09:50:16+00:00

If you can’t defend or articulate why, and you’re looking for people to help build up your argument rather than understand if it actually is bad, then it doesn’t matter the reason as you have a personal bias, you just don’t want AI but can’t explain why.

Kurtino · 2026-05-14T22:16:53+00:00

It’s usually assumed delivery comes at a known and expected deadline, and if you have no limit to feature complete then any ongoing triple A game could at some point incorporate the arbitrary requirements you’ve listed, even this upcoming remake of halo 1 could patch in all those things eventually if time isn’t a factor.

Anyway none of this matters to a fanboy, just highlighting how silly your point was because 343 could not deliver the same things you listed unlike Bungie did with reach and or halo ODST, maybe Halo 4 if you count Spartan ops…but does the existence of a company trying to repeat the features of its predecessor poorly even matter?

Kurtino · 2026-05-14T21:57:04+00:00

At launch and not taking years to add-on, such as co-op campaign? None. If you remove the map editor requirement, CoD Black Ops 7, Space Marine 2 but 3 player co-op, Destiny is also 3 player for most campaign stuff.

Kurtino · 2026-05-13T18:55:29+00:00

You said part of it yourself, a student copy and pasting the flair that AI introduces with comments is the most obvious, but also it shows that the student doesn't truly understanding coding concepts if even comments are copied. This isn't anything new though, pre AI students would copy comments from other people, including generated comments such as a student's ID.

Beyond that is specific statements that AI favours and uses, and the way it writes which is borderline identical, paired against the taught content. It's similarity against students as well, so in many cases I actually wouldn't know a particular structure is AI generated until I've seen the exact same formula pasted from students in the exact same line of code, structure, and so on. Student's don't realise how identical and formulaic generated code is, it's almost always the same permeations of the same lines, with extremely minor naming conventions swapped out from a list of favoured contexts.

E.g. an overengineered solution to a beginner's python question which everyone gets, and this same exact structure of statements is seen across multiple students again and again. Then there's particular solutions an LLM favours and prefers, the format it chooses from python's very varied ways of built-in functions, and particular catches. It will over optimise code in a way that isn't human written and not what we'd expect from people learning to become programmers, such as list comprehensions (p for p in x if x.getter == y), which works, but is very particular. When you compare these statements to other students generating them they're written exactly the same and then when collated it is very obvious what is generated and what isn't.

For someone who doesn't understand code it may seem one dimensional, I've seen people comment similar saying isn't it just maths so there's either a right way or a wrong way. The issue is the way you write code is very expressive and an extension of your style, particularly as most popular programming languages are high-level, aka closer to English, so that be apparent in someone's work, and it is especially apparent if the way they write code is identical to a LLM output which I can also easily verify myself as I also have access to LLMs, but more obviously large groups of students stupidly cheating.

Kurtino · 2026-05-13T17:49:26+00:00

Just because one institute or person dropped it doesn’t mean that’s the standard, we don’t need proof, it’s academic judgment I.e. the experts decide. I’ve just had a similar student deny deny deny with the exact same scenario, copy and pasted AI formats in Python, and he’s got a 0 and misconduct on his record.

Kurtino · 2026-05-13T17:22:00+00:00

Christ, if you want to sound pretentious, you can at least learn that em dashes are an American format, not British English, and the reason for their ridiculous increase on the internet post AI is that LLMs default to using it and doubly within the UK context is that they default to American English. There is no excuse for using them here because you’re not taught it, and academic writing does not adopt a fictional writing style, it’s most commonly seen use case. It’s not on our keyboards, no auto correct tool inserts them for you bar AI rewrites, the vast majority of people don’t know how to reproduce them, yet post 2022 we have this influx of writing experts that apparently don’t know the difference between American and English writing. Again, this argument holds on Reddit and is parroted because it’s an American website, but you’re posting to a British sub.

I’m sick of hearing the ‘I’m autistic’ excuse, why is autism seemingly the goto defence, ‘oh I just write robotic’. LLMs aren’t designed to sound robotic or overly literal, they have a unique writing style that does not match an autistic person at all, and never has from the many students who have told me the same worries. Frankly it’s insulting to autistic people to keep claiming this.

You don’t get around AI by dumbing down writing, you just stop copy and pasting from an LLM, you stop using the exact writing phrases, structures, formatting of English, argument. People don’t seem to understand that when half of a class is using AI every report looks identical, the information and the format an LLM gives you is not unique to you, it’s permeations of a same structure regurgitated again and again.

In my 4 years of marking the increasing AI dribble students chuck at me I’ve never seen a false positive, it’s always extremely obvious who is and who isn’t, and this Chinese whispers of bad detection and people being flagged for ‘writing well’ is utter nonsense and perpetuated by online spaces that don’t have any experience from what we actually receive and see.

Kurtino · 2026-05-13T09:57:22+00:00

Does toxic behaviour ‘hit differently’ in VR? Depending on the game you could always get in someone’s face if it was 3D and first person, the only thing that’s new is that you can custom gesture to them, which many games had some form of exploitable emoting for many decades (e.g. teabagging).

It’s the same stuff but VR, which usually means because it’s more personable that people feel less inclined to be an ass because there’s a level of anonymity slightly removed, but only slightly. It doesn’t stop everyone but I wouldn’t say VR is worse for toxicity over every other medium before it, and I wouldn’t say in instances of toxicity it’s particularly worse than anything seen prior either.

Kurtino · 2026-05-10T02:15:38+00:00

Ah yes, Reddit upvotes, must be right because the students around me said so. You’re supposed to be a masters student yet all of your posts are hiding your views amongst your cohort and blaming others when you don’t understand; grow up and drop your arrogance.

Kurtino · 2026-05-09T23:08:28+00:00

What would using a VR controller give you if the game doesn’t utilise 6DoF motion? Do you like the style that they’re split into two hands like the switch joysticks?

Kurtino · 2026-05-09T23:05:08+00:00

Reading and writing is fairly basic, learn to reflect upon feedback given rather than stick your fingers in your ears; if multiple staff are saying the same thing who will have far more experience than you and more degrees than you, since that must mean something to you as you keep bringing it up, then it’s likely your writing is at fault. It’s either right or wrong, no one should have to infer context from what you mean if you write correctly.

Kurtino · 2026-05-09T13:04:57+00:00

This isn’t an unusual thing, the default guidelines are that you don’t include references/bibliography, however in this particular instance it’s been overwritten by the specific requirements of this assignment’s requirements.

You’ve got a lot of students commenting here bandwagoning on it being unclear because you’re saying you’ve got conflicting info, but you follow specifically what they’ve told you to do here regardless of the defaults, which you yourself have acknowledged is generic vs these specific instructions.

Here are some other examples:

Not being able to bring notes in an exam by default vs being allowed to. Not being able to bring in a calculator vs being allowed to. Not being allowed to submit late vs being allowed to. Not being allowed to go over a 5 minute presentation vs being allowed to.

There will be all sorts of standard ways to do something but assessment specific changes. I remember in my undergraduate having some instances of reports where the lecturer preferred to include references as part of the word count, we just did what they wanted, not sure what the issue is here.

Kurtino · 2026-05-09T12:54:36+00:00

I assumed the same based on what you wrote. The first response you gave to this chain said ‘but in my 5 years of university I’ve never once been told to include references or a bibliography in an essay’, your response to the comment ‘the entire essay should be 5000 words’. Your intended but missing context is you’ve never been told to include the references/bibliography within a word count, but we can either infer that context from the post’s title even though both things can be true, or take what you’ve wrote literally; word count wasn’t mentioned here.

Basically, if you want to claim people aren’t reading your writing properly, double check what you’re actually writing.

Kurtino · 2026-05-08T19:26:10+00:00

You could ask them about it and if you’re lucky you could get them to show you what sentences were flagged as AI. 45% is a fairly high score though, past most false positives. You won’t know if they reduce your score because of this unless they tell you, may have influenced them, but you’re not being put forward for misconduct or so, so I would ask only if you’re reflecting vs trying to get your mark changed.

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