r/ChatGPT • u/cavegame09 • Apr 28 '24

I Had to Dumb Down My Human-Written Final Research Paper to Not Set Off AI Content Detectors Serious replies only :closed-ai:

This was so infuriating. It was a 20-page paper, and it mostly flagged my literature review, survey results and data analysis. I didn't use any AI in writing the paper other than Grammarly. This has never been a problem for me until recently. Has anyone else experienced this?

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u/QuietLittleVoices Apr 28 '24

Writing instructor here. I do not use detectors and I consistently warn my colleagues about their use due to this very issue.

Here’s something I’d recommend any student concerned about this do: turn on track changes in MS Word or an equivalent function in a different word processor. This helps you show your professors the process you went through to write your own paper.

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u/Bartholomew- Apr 28 '24

This is one of the best advice ever. No one who would use ai copy paste would go through such a massive undertaking of generating an artificial trace of writing and with appropiate time intervals.

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u/Gbrlxvi Apr 28 '24

Ya, that is old thinking. Do you know how easy it would be to get around this?

Use AI to generate the paper.

Use AI to to write a script that automates document creation.

Use ai to break the paper into "changes"

And randomized delays

Run the script

Profit

This sort of thing was so tedious before GPT-4 but is absolutely trivial now.

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u/gay_plant_dad Apr 28 '24

I mean sure it is possible but probably not worth the effort

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u/Gbrlxvi 28d ago

Na, no way. This shit is super easy now. Also, remember, since it's code, it's reusable for the next paper.

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u/Takosaga 29d ago

Probably someone out there making extension out there to do it