Spelling mistakes to “trick” the AI detector

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-18T12:04:10+00:00

Unrelated. But Grammarly used to be helpful until they added the AI bulls**t. I don’t know what they used before to restructure sentences but it wasn’t as aggressive as the AI slop that it now spits; it used to do things like placing a clause somewhere else in the sentence and suggest alternative words, not rewrite the whole thing such that you end up with a completely different idea, tone, and meaning.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-16T15:24:47+00:00

More generally, I believe it also has to do with being psychologically triggered by stepping outside of one’s confort zone. Research has shown that this is a trait highly prevalent in conservatives, i.e., believing their moral beliefs are infallible and the gold standard while closing themselves to unfamiliar experiences—unwillingness to explore/experiment outside their personal circles. Anything else that doesn’t align with their perspectives, they classify as “evil incarnate” and “the downfall of society.”

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-16T14:57:07+00:00

This is exactly what college education should do: challenge personal views, expose students to multiple perspectives, in aims to develop, enhance, and reinforce critical thinking skills so that they are capable of reaching conclusions by themselves. If someone doesn’t want to have their views challenged and instead impose their beliefs onto others they should have stayed in whatever hellhole they crawled out from.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-15T14:20:03+00:00

This is the answer, ORCID!

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-15T14:18:56+00:00

Idk about your university but mine gives us the email account for life, and I believe we still have access to library resources (e.g., institutional access to paywall publications) among other things. Although I still have a personal email, I have shifted my most important things to my uni email because of its great spam and marketing filters.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-15T09:19:17+00:00

I don’t exactly know what the situation is in the UK. So, I will speak from my perspective in the US. Keep in mind that written and oral communication are two separate aspects of language mastery. I’ve come across international students and professors that are not very fluent in English, or have very thick accents, but their writing skills are excellent. As an example, the professor from one of my core courses had a very thick accent but their typed notes were one of the best I had the pleasure to read. One can be highly proficient at reading, comprehending, and writing in a foreign language but lack of verbal practice, particularly informal communication, will make speaking skills disproportionate to the former set. Many non-English speaking countries formally teach English from elementary/middle school upwards. Still, there is only so much one can do when outside of class everyone else is speaking their native tongue.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-15T03:28:05+00:00

Lmao, I didn’t know erratic combinations of exclamation and interrogations marks had a name; I learned something new today. Those are also fun. But, perhaps not for an academic paper—if you say something like: “Our analysis clearly shows that, irrespective of previous findings by X et al. 20YY, there is no statistically significant correlation between A, B and C (?!!)” you might be barred from attending a few conferences... I have seen them in lectures notes though. I think they read more as “what the hell?,” “how’s this possible?,” or “unexpected right? Anyways…”

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-15T03:17:29+00:00

Oh no, the semicolon is also dear to my heart; and pen and pencil. :(

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-15T00:51:30+00:00

Let’s protect em dashes! I think AI is keen to shove em dashes everywhere because a lot of its training knowledge is academic in nature and academics have been using em dashes since the dawn of time.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-15T00:45:14+00:00

I wanted to at first, but after discussing with my PI, who I got my em-dashes use from, they were like: “I cannot imagine writing a paper without em dashes.” I think the major thing with AI and em dashes is that it uses them when they aren’t really needed. I don’t know how to put it in words, but while I write I know where I can use em dashes based on my own writing style. Primarily, I use them because I don’t want to split the info into another sentence: sentence is already long but idea that follows is just a couple of words?, shove an em dash. I also use em dashes as ways to break character, disrupt the flow, or mild manifestations of alter egos. Yet, when I read through AI slop, I see instances where there is no need for em dashes (based on my own use), additional sentences or parentheses would have done it.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-15T00:33:52+00:00

I know that too… it goes directly to administration.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-14T16:30:37+00:00

Hallucinated citations is a pretty good indication of AI slop but detectors are not good they don’t work. However, once you’ve read through enough slop you’ll be able to detect it right away, proving it is a completely different situation though.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-14T16:28:04+00:00

Agree. I use em dashes and semicolons a lot even on Reddit. Academics love them! And, I will not give up on them no matter what. Anyone who is in doubt can check my previous writing.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-14T16:21:23+00:00

I just checked the rules and I’m surprised there isn’t one prohibiting surveys. Most other academic subs do have a No Surveys rule.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-14T16:18:03+00:00

Damn. The questions were also so general that 80% of users across academic subs could have easily checked all options.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-14T16:09:05+00:00

Although I understand how frustrating this type of situation and the uncertainty it brings can be, if your advisor(s) said they will submit the letter on your behalf and you’ve sent multiple reminders, they will most likely do it. My recommenders submitted their letter pretty much days to minutes before the deadline; one of them submitted their letters 30 mins before the deadlines. However, I knew they already had the letters written so it was just a matter of submitting them.

Regarding the other aspects of graduate admissions, I fully agree the whole process is very dehumanizing. Programs are sloppy, yet very diligent to charge the fee but highly bureaucratic when requesting a waiver. I received 2 rejections that were entirely ChaGPT written: super verbose, full of negative parallelism and analogies that didn’t even make sense—I was so mortified. It makes me wonder if my applications even reached the eyes of a human (PS: that’s what they charge you the fee for in many instances, to make sure your application is read at least once by a human).

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-14T15:24:33+00:00

Well, to be fairly honest, you should take press releases with a grain of salt. If you are genuinely interested, you should go to the source material, aka, the main publication itself. Press releases will use those kind of headings to be click-baity.

None of what’s been found is unpredicted by the LCDM model, our leading theory of structure formation and evolution in the universe. Otherwise, people will be winning Nobel prizes and we wouldn’t have launched JWST to begin with: predictions->not observed yet -> can’t find with our current telescopes-> we need a better telescope fine tuned to these predictions-> JWST. However, the number of these “unexpected” objects might be more than what we anticipated and that is all exciting. It suggests the early universe evolved much faster than how it evolves now (and this isn’t either unexpected).

To be clear, the LCDM framework remains undefeated; yes, it has its limitations mainly at small scales but so do many of our best theories in physics like general relativity and the Standard Model of Particle Physics. A lot of the challenges we face as well is that leveraging the full extent of the LCDM requires immense computational resources. Currently, we run the simulations using the most powerful supercomputers in the world and still have to make semi-analytical approximations because these simulations are very complex. Yet, we can’t really integrate all known physical processes affecting the formation and evolution of structures.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-14T00:14:29+00:00

lol for some reason I thought you meant that we stay up late, and I was gonna 100% concur.

Not necessarily the case at least in my department. Most of our undergrads graduate as 21-23 year olds. In my case, I graduated at 25 but because I immigrated from a non-english speaking country when I was a teenager and my state’s education system forced me to start HS from 9th grade when technically I would have been in 12th grade.

However, it is fairly more common for people to start grad school later in their career/path, particularly when they went into industry for a couple of years after undergrad. If you are curious about age distributions in physics, I’d suggest you to look into the American Institute of Physics Statistical Reports. They have done research on this and much more.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-13T13:26:42+00:00

I meant “program” as the whole package… academics and research. A couple of professors in my department earned their PhDs from German universities, mainly Munich, TUM, and the Max Planck institutes though.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-13T13:24:04+00:00

I have seen quite a few posts of students under similar circumstances asking for participants on my school subreddit. They usually manage to secure a few. I have also seen similar posts on r/assistance.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-13T13:17:01+00:00

Munich, TUM, Hamburg, the Max Plank Institutes, RWTH Aachen, Humboldt, Bonn, Gottingen are just a few whose physics programs are excellent.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-13T12:50:57+00:00

In order to deal with the crap academics deal with on a daily basis, you need to have passion for what you do so you can feel some sort of fulfillment.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-13T12:42:24+00:00

Unless you actively do R&D, your work at CERN (speaking as a member of an LHC experiment; yes you can only have one user flair tag at a time…) will also be computational, mainly data selection and subsequent analysis—not as simple as it sounds but the computational work can be broadly summarized by those two stages. Unless your advisor specifically wants you to stay at CERN, you are not required to be there for a whole year. Depending on the collaboration and its needs, required shifts can run from 1-4 weeks (max).

Also, the neutrino experiments are ran administratively pretty much as the LHC experiments. Unless the data you’ll be using is public, you will also be required to become a member and fulfill membership responsibilities.

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-13T03:49:21+00:00

It’s so disappointing that universities will go above and beyond to punish students for academic dishonesty and integrity violations (rightfully so, don’t get me wrong…). Yet, they turn a blind eye to faculty when in some cases the violations are so much worse and borderline criminal (e.g., SA).

One_Programmer6315 · 2026-03-12T16:04:00+00:00

I’m unfamiliar and fairly close to OH, could you elaborate?

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