Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work
What's happening
Students and creators on Reddit and Hacker News are warning against using AI to produce work you then present as your own. Reddit users report professors using AI detectors for essays, questions about detecting AI-made PowerPoint slides and videos, and a student saying a 7-page paper with 10 citations that they wrote was flagged 100% AI by multiple checkers. Hacker News posts bluntly advise not to use AI for work you claim as yours and not to announce you used AI for writing.
Why it's trending
Because detection tools and community pressure are flagging material as AI-generated, creating real academic and reputational risk now.
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If a detector says your 7-page, 10-citation paper is 100% AI, maybe the problem isn't the tool, it's how you used the tool.
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Original sources4
- AI might make me fail my class
I wrote an entire paper over the last few days for my college course. 7 pages with 10 citations to back up my own research. Even though 0% of it was written by AI multiple checkers online are saying it is 100% written by AI. I hate how I might fail a course and get kicked out of college over bs AI checkers saying my 100% handwritten work is fake. One of the checkers said an entire sentence was AI
r/artificialJun 21 - Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own workHackerNewsJun 21
- Public Service Announcement: Don't Say You Use AI for WritingHackerNewsJun 21
- Making slides
I know university professors are strict about AI and use AI detector when it’s essay writing, but what about powerpoint slides? Are there any ways for them to detect AI-made slides? What about videos?
r/artificialJun 15
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