Does University of Reading use AI detection? No
Short answer
No. University of Reading does not run AI detection on submissions, so no AI score is generated for your work.
Module rules on permitted AI use still apply either way, and a detector score is never the whole case — the university’s own statement and what it means for you are below.
What University of Reading has said
Disabled. Academic-integrity guidance states "Turnitin's facility to detect AI use is turned off due its low reliability and the risk of false accusations of misconduct", and tells staff not to upload work to third-party detectors.
Sources (Nov 2023): Academic integrity and generative AI tools (PDF) · GenAI for teaching and learning
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What this means if you study here
Reading's academic-integrity guidance states Turnitin's AI-detection facility 'is turned off due its low reliability and the risk of false accusations of misconduct', and instructs staff not to upload student work to third-party detectors (November 2023). Reliability and false accusations are named in the same sentence — the student-protection rationale made explicit.
Reading submissions generate no AI score, and staff-side detector use is ruled out. Your obligations sit in each module's AI rules; your protection sits in your drafts.
Turnitin at University of Reading
University of Reading has the AI-detection feature disabled in its checking tools, so no AI score is generated for submissions. Similarity checking is separate from AI detection and remains the sector norm, so source matching should still be assumed.
How the AI writing report behaves wherever it is enabled — the 300-word minimum, the 1–19% asterisk band, and why the score is never proof on its own — is covered in does Turnitin detect AI?
Before you submit, anywhere
- Policies change and are re-verified here quarterly — the university’s linked statement above is always the authority, and your module brief overrides everything.
- Whatever the institutional toggle, keep your drafts and version history: process evidence decides disputes, not scores.
- No third-party tool predicts a Turnitin result — here is why. Use checks to understand your own writing, not to chase a number.
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