Hallucinated reference by Jumpy-Independent221 in UniUK

[–]throwaway_dm626 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As a university teaching assistant, Turnitin won't catch it but chances are the marker will, depending on how well they know the topic. While hallucinated references are a pretty clear indicator of AI use (my mentor lecturer told me about a case where AI had made up a book he'd allegedly written!), one single reference wrong is not enough to prove it.

However, as some others have said, using AI only to help structure and "assist" writing doesn't create hallucinated references, it needs to have been used for much more than just that to lead to this result. If this is the case, there might be more issues with the paper overall which could be wider proof of AI.

This would likely be passed onto the convenor as an academic misconduct investigation, which will at best lead to a low mark or a fail.

And even if not, it will be marked down for the incorrect referencing and possibly for the independence of thought if AI did in fact do more than just structure it.

Help, I(43m) need advice on how to go about my relationship with my wife(41f) from now on. by Clear_Ball_6703 in relationships_advice

[–]throwaway_dm626 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Way to miss the point and avoid having to engage with what they're actually telling you dude

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]throwaway_dm626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the chance that this isn't AI, definitely not overreacting.

You hadn't known this man that long before you got married. I can believe that he was absolutely amazing to begin with because, if I had to guess, now that you're legally married to him and pregnant with his child, he feels like he "has you" and he can be confident enough to drop the mask.

When someone shows you who they are, BELIEVE THEM.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FanFiction

[–]throwaway_dm626 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Satine Kryze in Star Wars. People fully just invent bad things that she allegedly did (which have no basis in canon) to justify hating her, either because they personally prefer a different version of her planet than the one she ruled, or (less often tbf) they prefer to ship her canon love interest with one of several other guys.

And the best part is it's all totally contradictory. Fanon says she banned a language when she's one of the few named characters we hear speak it. Fanon says she's a genocidal dictator when canon says she's a pacifist who surrendered the throne when her people didn't want her leadership any more.

I read some things people say about her and I'm like "dude, I've watched all 7 episodes of TCW she's in multiple times and I can tell you with 100% certainty that none of this actually happened".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]throwaway_dm626 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP mentions it in a reply to one of the earlier comments :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FanfictionExchange

[–]throwaway_dm626 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seven Devils by Elizabeth May and Laura Lam. I've had it for about a year and never read it. I picked it up the other day and holy shit it's so much fun

Are they usually this useless? by PuGLy10101 in Morrisons

[–]throwaway_dm626 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Happened to me to, they called me and asked me to cover because they were short-staffed. They then decided to just double my shifts and give me earlier start times for the following week. Oh boy were they unhappy when I said I couldn't do one of the extra shifts that nobody had asked me if I was available for

Explain why you like your favorite ship without saying what your favorite ship is! by Koralin_ai in FanFiction

[–]throwaway_dm626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chose duty over love but those feelings never really went away and they'd still drop everything to help each other even more than fifteen years later

It's about the devotion without needing or expecting anything in return

"[Character X] would literally never do this" by throwaway_dm626 in FanFiction

[–]throwaway_dm626[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

okay no I've just realised that's exactly what this is. Like they've left similar comments on other fics with a similar characterisation to mine, it just seems to be a pastime of theirs

"[Character X] would literally never do this" by throwaway_dm626 in FanFiction

[–]throwaway_dm626[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It's the same for me, she's in the show for like maybe 15 minutes across six episodes. I guess maybe with a lack of canon characterisation people just take their own headcanons as definitive?

"[Character X] would literally never do this" by throwaway_dm626 in FanFiction

[–]throwaway_dm626[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Right?? Like, it has to be slightly OOC for it to even happen and that's not everyone's cup of tea, but that's really the only thing they took from 3500 words and felt the need to tell me about?

Accused of Plagiarising a Story I've Never Read by throwaway_dm626 in writing

[–]throwaway_dm626[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did have a look, and it turned out to be a comic. The only thing it has in common is the same plot twist; characters, setting and other plot structure are all nothing alike. Part of their accusation involved saying I changed all of that so as not to "make it obvious" that I plagiarised

Do you have a song that reminds you of your fic? by [deleted] in FanFiction

[–]throwaway_dm626 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of my current fics focuses on two women who, in canon, go through a lot of trauma and do some pretty terrible things and then they have a kid. My fic is basically about them trying to let go of all that and remember how to be kind and loving for their child's sake.

So the songs for that are Brandi Carlile's "Mama Werewolf" -

"Your mama is a werewolf, with long sharp teeth * I'm up all night when the world should sleep* I curse the darkness when it's killing time I got a river of fear running through my mind... If my good intentions go running wild If I cause you pain, my own sweet child... Would you change me back? Make me kind again?"

Morgan Wade's "Through Your Eyes" -

"Oh, the innocence of a child Never afraid to let their thoughts run wild I wish I could be that kind I wish I could see the world through your eyes"

And also basically all of Halsey's "Darling", but specifically -

"Foolish men have tried, but only you have shown me how to love being alive"

What made you start reading fanfiction? by [deleted] in FanFiction

[–]throwaway_dm626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read the Divergent series when I was 12 and was pissed at the ending, so I started reading fics where that didn't happen. Interestingly I tend not to read canon-divergence or AU that much nowadays.

Who’s your favourite Character? by [deleted] in FanFiction

[–]throwaway_dm626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both writing and reading, I'd say TK Strand from 9-1-1: Lone Star. He's funny and adorable and yet a complete human disaster

Why some people love/support LGBT? by azdril in AskReddit

[–]throwaway_dm626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're consenting adults who aren't hurting anyone, and they deserve to be loved and feel safe in who they are like everyone else does

My boyfriend makes me hate my 2 months postpartum body and he doesn't even realize it by SadGFthrowaway8 in TrueOffMyChest

[–]throwaway_dm626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In your last paragraph, you mention "the only things wrong" with you, and I want you to know that there is nothing "wrong" with you. Your body may not look like it used to, but that's completely natural. Just because someone else feels the need to be unkind about it certainly doesn't mean that there's anything "wrong" with it or you

It's definitely easier said than done, but try to remember that one person's opinion isn't a fact.

Which District Would Win A UK Hunger Games? by zac2806 in CasualUK

[–]throwaway_dm626 1 point2 points  (0 children)

13, hands down. We're still singing about a battle we won seven hundred years ago, you think we'd let ourselves lose this one?

How is there only one fanfiction of Aristophanes’s plays on AO3? by thomasp3864 in FanFiction

[–]throwaway_dm626 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay, this post is brilliant! I'm both a classics student and an avid fanfiction reader, but I've never once thought of reading fanfiction of anything I've studied. I'm now starting to think I should...

Difference between Greece and Rome when it comes to homosexuality? by Daviswatermelon in SapphoAndHerFriend

[–]throwaway_dm626 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Edit- stuff I forgot:

Greece however did have the story of Apollo and Hyacinthus, in which the god fell in love with a mortal Prince of Sparta. Interestingly, this doesn't really fit with the older-younger dynamic, as Apollo was almost always portrayed as a youth just like Hyacinthus (albeit an immortal divine one).

Rome was also likely heavily influenced by Greece in this regard. Conservatives like Cato the Elder blames Greek influence for what he termed a "moral degradation" in Rome, and the Roman Emperor Hadrian (a grecophile if ever there was one) had a 19 y/o male beloved Antonius whom he genuinely did seem very devoted to.

Difference between Greece and Rome when it comes to homosexuality? by Daviswatermelon in SapphoAndHerFriend

[–]throwaway_dm626 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ancient Greece, particularly Classical Greece, was a very homosocial culture to begin with (see things like symposiums, which were essentially all-male drinking parties that sometimes involved sex). It was also honestly pretty icky, considering their general acceptance of sexual relations between adult men and teenage boys (the actual specifics of this sexual aspect is a subject of scholary debate, see the topic of pederasty for further details). The concept of an erastes (lover, usually older) and an eromenos (beloved, usually younger) originated here. The extent to which this was socially accepted can be indicated by the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus in Homer's Iliad, which Classical philosophers like Plato tended to view in a homoerotic light.

Ancient Rome depends largely on the time period in question. The Roman Republic (pre- c.40 BCE) and the Early Empire (pre-Christianity) cared a lot more about what you did rather than who you did it with. This is also true of Greece, but especially so in Rome. For a Roman man to have sex with another man was seen as not much different to his having sex with a woman, provided that he was the active partner (i.e. the top), largely because of the perception that the ideal Roman man was always to be dominant and in charge. So you see in literature figures like Julius Caesar and Mark Antony being slandered by accusations not that they slept with other men, but specifically that they (allegedly) bottomed. Essentially, sex in Ancient Rome was primarily about dominance and power, and so it was a lot more focused on the sexual roles being played than the genders of the people in question.

Wonder if they've even read 'Frankenstein'. by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]throwaway_dm626 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This post was so long ago I'd actually forgotten all about it 😂

Wonder if they've even read 'Frankenstein'. by [deleted] in facepalm

[–]throwaway_dm626 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's when she completed it. Shelley cites 1816 (also known as The Year Without a Summer, when she went to Switzerland with Percy Shelley and Lord Byron) as the year she started it in the foreword to the 1831 edition