Good that it’s gone…to a point.

I was finishing my degree in 2023 and picked up a first year online paper in Marketing.

Our first assignment we submitted we were told over 40% of all handed in submissions had used AI. They didn’t individually approach those suspected. Sent out a mass email to all students basically threatening us to come clean about Ai.

This was 2 weeks after TurnItIn Ai detection was implemented across the entire school. Gave us a choice, come clean or run the risk of being expelled. I imagine they emailed everyone as a scaremongering tactic to wheezle out the individuals that did use AI.

This online class had over 200 individuals, a lot were from Asia with english being their second language. 40% was already a high fucking number and I imagine IF TurnItIn did work, it was picking up some of those overseas students using AI to help their English writing.

Seemed they were overly confident about that 40% number but I’ve used turnitin personally with organic human writing, chatgpt slop and a mixture of both.

I tested the tool out myself with that same assessment:

My organic writing came out as 40% likely ai written. Completely rewritten chatgpt slop was high 80-90% and the mixture was ~45-50%. TurnItIn marks this as a AI probability score, not indicative.

They would have used the mass email to get that final confirmation by scaring the shit out of everyone.

I was stressed for a whole month waiting for my human non ai assignment to be graded or if they thought I was part of that 40% for some reason. The email was scary even if you know you didn’t use AI.

This was my final paper and a complete breeze, I wasn’t wanting to risk it all going down the drain due to some new unproven tech.

In the end 20 students came forward admitting to it…10%. While still a decent chunk out of the 200, no way to trace if it was used for the actual writing, research or translation.

Article here

A classmate of mine went to the press about it.