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?
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.