Similarity score

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At my grad school, they used Turnitin, which gave a similarity score. Turnitin sucks, it sees references, block quotes, and sometimes random 2word combinations as plagiarism, so I wouldn’t stress too much about it as professors know this.

TESU used something different, don’t remember the name, but it was equally bad.

Most schools have dumped AI detectors because the false positive rate was enormously high and also falsely flagged non-native speakers.

I submitted a paper this evening (for TESU SOS-1500) and it got flagged as 100% AI content.  I don't know whether to laugh or cry.  My academic writing style has been consistent for over thirty years.  I guess Copyleaks thinks I am fake.

Have you used Grammarly or another grammar checker/paragraph tool?  Grammarly's paragraph writing coach will cause many AI detectors to see the content as AI generated.

If you are willing to spend a few bucks, originality.ai (at least last I looked) had a pay as you go model where you could buy $10 worth of credits to check your text for AI.  They claim their tool is more than 90% accurate at detecting AI with the lowest false positive rate of anybody, and they continually evaluate their tool and test it against others.

I've run my writing through originality.ai (a typical 5 or 10 page paper costs maybe 40 cents or something) and it gives a pretty detailed report, ranking confidence from 0-100% that various parts of the paper are AI. It ccasionally flags stuff i have written as having some lkelihood of being AI, but generally it gives me a clean bill of health.

If you try originality.ai and it finds your content to be plagiaris free, I'd submit screenshots of the score if you are concerned about being accused of academic fraud.