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?
years ago, we were told to make our writing formal and dry. now, the best way to make sure it doesn’t get flagged as false positives is tone and personality of your writing. an AI will never have a joke in a footnote, actual papers sometimes do.
but will the ai detector ai notice a joke in the footnote?
yes, 100%. and if your writing has the tone where a quick aside lands naturally, it doesn’t matter where it is anyways, you’ve already passed the detection.