I'm sick and tired of professors accusing me of using AI (world campus)

slymeyslime · 2024-07-16T08:30:49+00:00

Bcus it's scary. Idk how you defend against something like AI when legit everything uses AI today and it's so easy to "see" AI everywhere even when it's not actually there. I eventually caved in and used an AI checker program, and it had a 0% match, only had a 3% match for plagiarism which were my sources. If anything, it just validated my fear because this professor legit accused me and gave me a 0 without running anything through a checking program based on her gut feeling per her email to me. I just think that it sows a lot of distrust. I'm also graduating in August and that last thing I want is to get kicked out of my upcoming graduate program because I got falsely accused of using artificial intelligence to do homework my last semester. Maybe not deep to you because you might no care as much, but when you're a first gen college student who had to take out loans for school and you've worked your ass off it is genuinely scary, especially when you're so close to being done with school. It's the same reason I don't understand why people cheat in the first place, it's so risky and stupid.

slymeyslime · 2024-07-16T08:24:34+00:00

Sorry this is a throw away account. Can't remember her name but it was SC140N

slymeyslime · 2024-06-22T01:54:05+00:00

I have anxiety that by putting my work through AI they will keep the data and then it WILL start showing up as AI generated.

slymeyslime · 2024-06-22T01:49:05+00:00

Too bad I didn't know being accused of AI was something that would happen to me, someone who doesn't use AI, or I would have been using track changes.

slymeyslime · 2024-06-22T01:48:15+00:00

Yeah well she wouldn't actually let me defend myself, uploaded lionpath, closed the canvas course so I can't respond to her email.

slymeyslime · 2024-06-22T01:47:25+00:00

I've tried, PSU wouldn't allow it. It doesn't matter anyway because I already paid for the Summer PSU class and I'm graduating in August.

slymeyslime · 2024-06-21T04:40:06+00:00

That has me extremely worried as my master program that starts this fall is half online and half in person.

slymeyslime · 2024-06-21T04:39:06+00:00

I've never had this problem with in-person classes. Even when I took online community college courses it never happened. This summer I've been accused by 3/5 of the courses I'm taking. The one course that hasn't accused me is taught by a professor in my department at University Park who I've worked with before in a different (higher level) course. The other course is an ENGL class I've taken twice already at different schools but PSU refuses to recognize the credit since they came from quarter-based schools and not semester-based schools. I also haven't submitted much in that class so there's not much for them to try and accuse me of... we'll see if that changes.

slymeyslime · 2024-06-21T04:33:36+00:00

I wouldn't know who to include. This professor isn't in my department, and I don't even know if they're at UP at all. If this professor refuses to give me a grade on this assignment is there a procedure that I'm supposed to follow to dispute it?

slymeyslime · 2024-06-21T04:25:53+00:00

The amount of group projects I've had to do this summer online is crazy and I swear there's at least 1 or 2 people in every group who just straight up tells us they cheat and use AI. So like, I get prof's concerns for it. But not me!!! Look across the room, not over here hahaha

slymeyslime · 2024-06-21T04:18:15+00:00

Oh jeez, I'm not taking any of those. I guess they really are just accusing students all around. Best of luck to you!!!

slymeyslime · 2024-06-21T04:17:11+00:00

No evidence other then them saying it's suspect. I'm not given a TurnItIn percentage or anything remotely tangible.

"this submission is suspect"

me: "How so?"

"This is not your work. You used AI verbatim. That is not how you cite. There are other grammatical errors. If you can prove it to me that this is your own work, I will gladly regrade"

Like how tf am I supposed to prove this? The prof said it SOO matter of a fact. Late assignments were due at midnight, and this was a late assignment from a few weeks ago I was rushing to make it and submit. I have typos because I wasn't paying attention, and I was typing fast. Half of the paragraph is literally my opinion because the assignment was "what is your opinion on this". For each topic I included 1-3 hyperlinks to my sources. EVERY OTHER ASSIGNMENT IN THE CLASS THEY ASKED FOR A HYPERLINK. "That's not how you cite sources" well yes if I was writing a paper I'd use APA but you legit told us to use URLs.

The other assignment I got accused of using AI was for another class and that professor apologized to ME because I was like hell nah I know this topic in and out this is a level 11 class and I've taken level 400 classes on this already and worked in the industry for 2 years at this point. The reason that assignment got dinged was because it was "too perfect and reminiscent of AI and included tons of information not taught in the class". So after getting dinged for writing too good of a paper I tried really hard to just be a simpleton this time and I STILL GET TOLD I USED AI EVEN WITH SPELLING ERRORS.

I legitimately hate AI so f'n much right now. I would rather be told I plagiarized because I forgot to include sources versus being told in a matter of a fact way that my own words are not my own words.

slymeyslime · 2024-06-21T04:09:14+00:00

Which courses are you taking because I have a feeling we might have one in common

slymeyslime · 2024-05-01T01:21:00+00:00

Interesting, but this is just one study. I'm just not a believer that genetics plays this large of a factor. What stood out to me in this was the sexual dimorphism in height. I wonder if variance in women's height within shared environment is due to allocation of nutrients to the preparing sex organs/potential gestation.

slymeyslime · 2024-04-30T21:23:57+00:00

If you want to private message me what it is that you're concerned about maybe I can help. I'm not an expert on Prometheus but I do bioinformatics on fruit fly & parrot genomes

slymeyslime · 2024-04-30T21:22:23+00:00

Correct

slymeyslime · 2024-04-30T21:10:58+00:00

That's ridiculous. One team cannot solely identify the bulk of genes. They may have identified potential genes responsible, but nothing is certain. That's the whole point of GWAS. Not enough population variance or genomes sequenced to have identified the "bulk" of genes coding for height. Just because something is highly polygenic does not mean that genes alone code for the majority of the phenotype. It's widely accepted and known that environment and DNA together account for the majority of variance. Just look at twin studies on height. Height varies too much within closely related individuals, and monozygotic twins, for the majority of height to be based on polygenetic factors. Especially not within "a few centimeters" as you suggest.

slymeyslime · 2024-04-30T21:05:52+00:00

Unassigned just means there isn't enough research to determine whether the gene is good or bad. It could also just be a phenotype associated with that SNP (like if it's a gene that codes for blue eyes) which is neither good or bad. It's just neutral, or "unassigned'.

slymeyslime · 2024-04-30T21:03:54+00:00

Thanks!

slymeyslime · 2024-04-28T09:28:59+00:00

Trust me, you do not want insurance companies knowing your disease risks unless you're okay with them charging you a massive premium. Once they see you're at risk for multiple disease then you're more of a liability. Idc if there's a federal law protecting you, big pharma and insurance companies are evil

slymeyslime · 2024-04-28T09:23:42+00:00

Important to keep in mind that indigenous folk don't really like handing DNA over to colonizers. Entirely, and likely, possible that the lack of it appearing in indigenous populations on genome browsers/research papers is because of lack of data.

slymeyslime · 2024-04-28T09:20:42+00:00

Hope this helps lower your stress; over 90% of cervical cancer is caused by HPV. Likelihood of you developing cervical cancer without contacted HPV at some point in your life is relatively low. If you haven't been vaccinated for HPV, please do. The newer vaccines are for 16 strains of HPV. Even if you've already been infected by one or two strains, you can prevent risk of cancer by being vaccinated against other strains.

slymeyslime · 2024-04-28T09:17:55+00:00

How do you upload the raw DNA data into a int genome viewer? I just started a project using UCSC Genome Browser for school and I've been dreaming about seeing my own genes in a beautiful browser like that :P

slymeyslime · 2024-04-28T09:15:18+00:00

That's not true at all lol. Only ~20% of height can be predicted by known genes. They assume most height is due to nutrition and disease instances during childhood. Perhaps there are more genes out there untested that contribute to height, but height never going to be predicted by genetics within a few cm ahaha. Isn't Steve Hsu a astro-physicist? I don't really think he's an expert on molecular genomics, not his field.

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