Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.
Services like TurnItIn are unethical in the extreme and any institution that uses them should be protested, boycotted, not given a moment of peace until they drop them. These tools don’t work, are highly prone to false positives, harm neurodiverse students disproportionately, and steal content from vulnerable students who can’t opt out.
Services like TurnItIn are unethical in the extreme and any institution that uses them should be protested, boycotted, not given a moment of peace until they drop them. These tools don’t work, are highly prone to false positives, harm neurodiverse students disproportionately, and steal content from vulnerable students who can’t opt out.