How do anti-plagiarism detectors and programs work to find exact wordings from other sources and determine that they aren’t just coincidence?

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How do anti-plagiarism detectors and programs work to find exact wordings from other sources and determine that they aren’t just coincidence?

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They don’t and they commonly match things that may have one or two word differences to stop students from copying then changing a few words. They also don’t recognize if you cite the source so if you are writing a quote then it will flag that as plagiarism. That’s why the teachers or TAs have to double check the report the system spits out to check for actual plagiarism. I straight up had a teacher said they only looked at reports that had above a certain plagiarism percentage.

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