My university uses AI detectors when marking papers, and almost any result higher than 0% can cause lost grades. As anyone whose used one of these tools will know, they have an extremely high false positive rate, meaning that while I don’t use AI (and can’t, given the technical nature of the papers) I still lose marks. Is there any way to decrease the rate of false positives without completely destroying the structure and flow of a paper?
AI tends to write correct English, so you could try adding typos, grammatical mistakes, incorrect punctuation, wrong capitalization, etc. /joke
People already prompt their AI to do this.
Personally I think trying to detect AI is a lost cause and they need to do something different. Back in my day all tests were in person with no tools except a calculator, but I can see how that won’t scale.
or make them write papers in a computer labs, where there is usually a moniter person that watches people like a hawk.
Unironically have already been doing this. Marks lost from typos are much less than those from AI false positives.
You could ask your tutors what you can do to ease their conscience in regards to AI use. If they don’t have suggested protocols or don’t take that as an indicator of your honesty, they’re just fucking punishing you for nothing