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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I have a friend who turned in such a good paper during grad school that the professor thought it was plagiarized (no turnitin or anything) and gave him a 0. After meeting with the teacher and straightening it out I would have felt pretty good about myself.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 2 points 54 minutes ago

It is a good feeling to do so well they assume you cheated. My HD math teacher (tiny school) made me take tests sitting next to them because I never did homework but always got an A on the tests. They assumed I was cheating.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

A couple months ago, my sister had to make a paper and then pass it through a plagiarism detector

The detector thought that some of the most common combinations of words and ":00"(as part of a time like 7:00) were plagiarized from their sources.

You could put any normal conversation in the detector and it would probably assume you were searching online what you should say next

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Plagiarism detectors aren't meant to be used in lieu of critical evaluation. They find suspected plagiarized passages and supply links to what they think is the original text. Then you as the professor are supposed to evaluate whether it really counts as plagiarism. You can tell the detector to ignore certain parts that pass your scrutiny and rerun the analysis.

When I was teaching, I always included a "drafts only" TurnItIn link that was for the express purpose of students checking their own work for plagiarism. They were supposed to run it through TurnItIn, evaluate what it picked up on, fix whatever issues were present, and then when their paper was in a good place with no plagiarism, they could submit it to the real TurnItIn link for me to grade. This was to the students' benefit because they couldn't be surprised by the results, and also to my benefit because with this system students had no excuse for submitting any plagiarized material. The diligent students used this system. Lots of lazy students did not, and when I found plagiarism I was not lenient because they'd had every opportunity to avoid it. (And also because it's fucking grad school, and I had no patience for their fuckery.)

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Plagiarism detectors aren’t meant to be used in lieu of critical evaluation.

In reality, that's exactly how they are used.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago)

40% I sleep

60% real shit, I check.

90%+ they handed in the instructions and that whole page is flagged as absolutely plagiarised.

Pretty easy to determine breakpoints once you've taught the class before.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 1 points 53 minutes ago

Same with most of AI

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 49 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe you wrote so many papers AIs were trained on that they basically copy your style

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 hours ago

This is precisely why those AI detector tools are all bullshit. All LLMs are trained on things that real people wrote.

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 14 points 6 hours ago

You are the source! 🧟‍♂️

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

Just rewrite it a few more times