Schools tend to use either Microslop's or Google's toolsets. Both of them include a feature a change log to your documents. Teachers can so easily check for your writing process. They can view your manual changes and slow progress. Something that just does not happen if you plagarize or use AI. They can see what and where you copied and pasted. This renders these tools useless. If a monkey was given a typewriter and randomly typed things without knowing it, assuming the monkey and typewriter will last for practically forever, the monkey will eventually write all of Shakespeare's works as its own original creation. Now that is assuming this is all happening randomly. So if there are humans trying to write their own work about a topic that others have covered, then of course there will be similar wording.Furthermore, these tools hurt people's lives. They use a clanker to see if you generated a paper with a clanker or copied someone else's work. Clankers hallucinate. We've all likely seen a humorous screenshot of a clanker saying something so idiotic. For example, Google Gemini stating you should eat rocks as a source of vitamins minerals. Would you trust Gemini with your grade, your degree, your life after seeing that? I highly doubt you would. So how can we trust clankers to decide whether or not our paper is legitimate.Every time I submit a paper to Turnitin, I fear it is going to flag me, and I will be fighting an uphill battle where I am guilty until proven innocent, fighting for my integrity, my honor, my grade, and ultimately my life.Uploading an essay to Turnitin is more stressful than nearly drowning. It is more pain inducing than a volleyball flying into your groin area. One erroneous citation or even a well varied vocabulary suddenly becomes a snare. Good writing is now an academic vice. My writing style has drastically changed due to Turnitin. I no longer write with my once beloved not only x but also y sentence structure. This sentence format allows for great writing, but I cannot trust that the clanker seeing if I am human to understand that. I no longer use M-dashes. I even got some points docked off because of my poor grammar on a paper. Grammar that could have been solved if I had used an M-dash. But at what cost?The generations before us may have had to walk through the snow and at at absolute zero, going uphill both ways, fighting off wild beasts who come in their path. But the one thing they did not have to fight was a clanker. AI writing is bad. Yet, this is the real plague on academics.
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