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greatartiste ◴[] No.41901335[source]
For a human who deals with student work or reads job applications spotting AI generated work quickly becomes trivially easy. Text seems to use the same general framework (although words are swapped around) also we see what I call 'word of the week' where whichever 'AI' engine seems to get hung up on a particular English word which is often an unusual one and uses it at every opportunity. It isn't long before you realise that the adage that this is just autocomplete on steroids is true.

However programming a computer to do this isn't easy. In a previous job I had dealing with plagiarism detectors and soon realised how garbage they were (and also how easily fooled they are - but that is another story). The staff soon realised what garbage these tools are so if a student accused of plagiarism decided to argue back then the accusation would be quietly dropped.

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1. Buttons840 ◴[] No.41903988[source]
Students who use the "word of the week" can easily explain it by saying they used an AI in their studies.

"You asked us to write an essay on the Civil War. The first thing I did was ask an AI to explain it to me, and I asked the AI some follow-up questions. Then I did some research using other sources and wrote my paper."

It might even be a true story, and in such a case it's not surprising that the student would repeat words they encountered while studying.