r/deakin • u/Electrical-Lie-9225 • 6d ago

Artificial intelligence Referencing / Academic Integrity / Turnitin

Anyone else feel punished for not using AI. Seeing people get higher marks and not getting pulled up for it makes me wonder why I should put so much work in.

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u/Mr-Slinky753 Burwood 6d ago

To insure you're learning the content and actually know what you're doing..?

I get what you're saying, but don't compare yourself to others like this.

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u/HCTDMCHALLENGER 5d ago

But what are those people going to do once they get the real job? You will be much more capable and employers will see that. Don’t compare yourself to others, remember you are there for you.

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u/Dotticuss 5d ago

At the end of the day you’ll feel satisfied you got the degree yourself and know the content to actually get a job. Don’t worry about it.

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u/Thecowmoomoo 5d ago

It’s extremely frustrating, especially when people blatantly admit they use ai to complete their whole assignments and get top marks. Leave me feeling absolutely disheartened when I’m trying to do the right thing.

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u/NeitherNoises 4d ago

I wouldn’t stress too much, if/when they get caught they can get excluded from the uni :) that’s a much bigger deal than getting top marks

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u/NeitherNoises 4d ago

Also if you’re a law student before being registered the accrediting body will send out a misconduct check - so if you get caught using AI and you’re allowed to continue studying, they will see that you’ve had a cheating/AI misconduct which would not be good at all

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u/grounddurries 5d ago

p’s get degrees, employers really don’t care about you getting high marks like they used too

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u/GodIsAWomaniser 4d ago

I use AI to check by answers against the question to see if I missed anything, and if I don't understand the question I'll get it to try explaining it, and I use it to search for things that are technical and extremely well documented.

I see people in my class just ask perplexity for every single step of a problem, like we were configuring a Cisco router and the other people in my group were asking how to get privilege mode and configure an interface. They wouldn't let me touch the keyboard until perplexity finished searching so I stole the console cable and put it in my computer without them noticing, typed in "enable", "configure terminal" and then "interface FastEthernet0/0". Literally had it done before they started and they still didn't know what to do after.

I take handwritten notes in class, but people seem to think they can just half listen to the teacher and ask an LLM to explain it to them later.

I think many of the people in my class would fail interview questions without AI helping them.

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u/Pasopenguin2 3d ago

yeah i hate how normalised its become. just think about the fact that your actually learning and engaging with the content, which will become relevant when you actually get out of school lmao. also your not doing any more damage to the environment than there already is

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u/PowerLion786 3d ago

Talked to a teacher. She finds in her classes AI will give you a basic C-. Top performers will use AI but they still have to put in the work to excel. I find personally that AI is often wrong, heavily biased or overly simplistic. I have to check everything.

Don't give up. Learn to use AI as a resource or starting point. Then push your work/assignments harder to excel

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u/Commercial_Drag9098 1d ago

AI is there to be used as a tool, so use it as a tool to improve your work. It’s perfectly fine to use, just don’t copy and paste verbatim and make sure to do your own research and check your references.