Turnitin AI: beware of its false positive in using for similarity and AI source checking for an article

Abstract

The emerging use of computational AI tool leads to convenience and advantage. In academic, the use can bee in several ways. Turnitin is an AI tool for similarity checking and tracing for the AI generated text. This tool is widely used AI application in academic and it is usually for checking of similarity of student’s work or submitted article to the journal. The result from Turnitin check is usually referred information for accusation and management of unethical academic problem.  However, as an AI tool, it can have false positive and hallucination. If user does not recognize or has no critical appraisal on the result, there might be an unfair unwanted complication. For example, it might lead to unfair decision on a submitted article or student’s work. In the worst case, it can lead to an unfair and unethical management on an innocent author due to the accused plagiarism based on false positive result given by Turnitin.