In the run-up to the graduation season, for some graduates of higher education institutions, the dissertation is now accompanied by an additional level — aig testing — in addition to the traditional weighting, defence, etc。
Since this year, a number of higher education institutions, such as sichuan university, beijing teachers university, southwest university, hubei university and south-west transport university, have issued an ai test for graduation dissertations, usually requiring more than 20 per cent of all dissertations in the humanities and social sciences, and not more than 15 per cent in the technical and medical sciences。
In addition, higher education institutions, including the university of jordan, require students to disclose information on the use of the ai tool in their papers if they use the ai tool before formally defending their dissertation。
An industrial chain around the dissertation ai is being formed at a time when issues such as whether the dissertation should use ai tests and whether ai tests have been miscalculated and controversial, among others, by the web. In the past, part-time individuals or specialized agencies that earn money through downweight, dissertation services, etc., have started to add services to reduce the “ai rate” of graduation papers, and to harvest the graduates through the low price threshold。
Thesis drops "ai" and breeds a grey chain
Behind the additional thesis ais test is an increasing number of university students using ai as a supplement in literature search, thesis framework, language adaptation, and the presentation of essays。
In 2024, a third-party agency, michaels, conducted a questionnaire survey of more than 3,000 chinese higher education students and teachers, which showed that nearly 30 per cent of university students used ai for dissertation or homework writing。
This year’s graduation season, many students are tanned on social platforms and have received aig tests from schools, and universities are now in the process of exploring water tests, so that not only do the requirements differ from one college to another, but the standards and requirements for agc testing are not exactly the same。
On the whole, however, if the test results show that there is a high rate of ai generation of the thesis, students may face situations such as re-engineering, secondary defence or even graduation。
In contrast, three academic testing websites, which work closely with higher education institutions: know net, whip and papersmart, have also added aig testing services, which are parallel to the paper examination service. The "aigc testing service" was also explained to mean that the text can be effectively identified as having some or all of the ai model creation characteristics and producing a test report containing, inter alia, ai signature values, aig segment distribution, etc。
Similar to the review report, in the “aigc test” report, the fragments systematically identified as ai-generated are marked as different colours. In the case of 6,000-word papers, if the test results indicate that “ai is suspected to be 60 per cent”, it means that 3,600 words in the papers are suspected to be ai-generated。
From the network of officials of these institutions, tech planet found that aig testing was 2 yuan/thousands, papersmart "structify + aig testing" was priced at 1. 5 yuan/thousands, and whip was based on a price model, with an aig test cost of 20 yuan for a paper。
In the past, a complete grey industry chain was formed around graduate dissertations, which included the writing of papers, the reduction of review rates, the production of a ppt, part-time work for school students and a small team of intermediaries, who this year have collectively moved towards lower “ai rate” services。
On small red books, idle fish and electrician platforms, they call themselves “show hands” and attract students to buy them with the words “purely artificially reduced ai”。
A "faller" introduced tech planet to a charge based on the characters that need to be modified, usually priced around 1000 words and 10 dollars in circles, e. G. 5,000 words, or 50 dollars, marked as suspected ai on the internet. The evening period is the peak of the order period and, during the graduation season, its team often lasts until 3 a. M。
According to the above-mentioned “show-the-hand” presentation, this year there has been a surge in entry rates, a mixed market, and if the service threshold is relatively high, requiring intermediaries to find university students/graduate students in the relevant professions, it will be easier to reduce ai rates, in a variety of ways, but mainly by changing the principals of the phrase, without changing their intentions, and therefore without taking into account the academic qualifications and professional background of the individual。
In addition to this, some of the smart, downweight platforms that used to focus on the “check-out” service began to update the “low-in” package this year。
There are also businesses selling so-called self-study ai testing tools. For example, in the mini-red book, there is an ai-rate system that claims to have been developed for algorithms such as icn, whip, which is charged by a vendor at $2/1,000, which corresponds to the cost of ai testing such as icnet, with a home page showing a sales volume of over 20,000 units, with an income of $120,000 calculated by the characters of about 3,000 words per order。
Three dollars down to ai, hundreds of thousands of dollars
The other side of the coin is that many students who want to reduce their ai rates by a shortcut, step on the pits, not only do the papers received do not reverse the ai rates, but they even encounter “fall-down” failures and blackouts。
Zhang yue, a 2025-year-old graduate who, after several changes, could not reduce the ai rate, finally decided to go to the idle fish and find a “faller”. In accordance with the procedure, he handed over 386 words marked as ai to the “faller” on the opposite side and paid the other 30 dollars at the “100-word 10” rate。
After receiving the first paper, modified by the “defeating hand”, he uploaded it for testing on a website designated by the school, and the more than 300 words were still marked as ai, with no effect。
The second version, which had been modified by the "shower", had led him to silence and collapse, not only in a very confusing way, but in part in a way that had deviated from the purpose of the article. Although these “defeating hands” promise to be sold as long as they are not qualified, they are not realistic for students. Zhang said that, in order to be safe, “offshore”, graduates would mostly test first on the school's designated website at their own expense. The double-checking of the +ai rate means that the cost is doubled, and it is unlikely that graduates will be able to test the revised “defeating hands” paper indefinitely and meet the standards。
There were also graduates, who ran off with a “faller”, who told tech that 12 noon was the deadline for the presentation of the papers and that the downers found at 10:30 were still in a state of disconnection。
Unlike the examination of the papers, the papers are tested to determine whether they are original by testing the existence of the same words, statements, paragraphs, etc. As others. There is no objectively quantifiable indicator to determine the ai content of the paper. Correspondingly, the method of reducing the ai rate has become more ambiguous。
Many graduates told tech that most of the “fall hands” are rewriting words, including not just amplification, abbreviation, modification of the labels, and the replacement of some high-frequency words such as “if” and “is” with other synonyms, or even “fall hands”, in order to reduce the ai rate, by replacing some professional terms with more verbicistic expressions, the more the papers become more confusing and the more the papers become more confusing。
And the down-to-in-the-way testing system for know-how, promoted by a number of businesses, has been replaced by countless synonyms in the paragraphs. A graduate will use the absurd game of experience known as “low-in-the-a-a”, such as the pre-down text, which is “a certain technology emerges” and then directly “a certain technology begins to display its initial appearance”, and the other is reversed, with numerous cases of a combination of lower sentences having been altered。
The above-mentioned graduates told tech that there was already something wrong with the purchase of these testing tools, such as the refusal of the merchants to provide trial clips, with no idea of the effect. Even more troublesome is the after-sales chain, since these teams can test 1,000 words for trial with less than three dollars, and graduates usually take the test mentality and, if they want to refund, spend 20 dollars on testing reports on websites such as whip, which they usually choose to give up。
Against this background, some short-term harvests have already earned a fortune。
A low-threshold ai test. How long will it last
In comparison to the paper-writing, weight-cutting and so on, the threshold for the ai-testing business is lower, the number of entrants has increased sharply and the market volume has become more confusing。
In an agency that changed the threshold of 100 graduation papers to tell tech planet, higher, usually a “subsidy + tail” model, where buyers and sellers run between each other, e. G. When the buyer is holding a false whip report demanding a refund, or when the paper revision is completed, the buyer suddenly runs。
According to wangyang, an intermediary of the team known as “985 postgraduate studies”, in fact, when looking for part-time workers, is very shabby: “just fill in a professional, academic, etc., without having to submit any proof, they will bring you directly into the group for a list.”
From a group of dissertations, tech planets see that this is the fifth group of the agency, which is already close to 500 people in full capacity, meaning that at least 2,000 part-time “writers”。
According to wangyang, these intermediaries, who mainly publish and bargain, are allocated to part-time workers at a rate of 30 per cent of the price of each single sale, who may be on a personal basis by means of an indirect list, which he continued to receive during the graduation season last year. But as in the ocean, most people choose to take orders on intermediary platforms as a transition, and eventually they come out on their own。
The "writer" who enters the circle usually starts with a fallback, delivers quickly, has fewer things to suit the newer, and wang says this year has become a drop-in. Even so, some of the so-called “artificial down-rate” agencies that promote it are actually modifying it with ai software。
Many of the graduates who stepped on the pits began to lower the ai rate by sending different instructions on free platforms such as beans buns, kimi, manshin, etc., but with different results, some succeeded in reducing it, while others did not, from 30 to 80 per cent。
How to lower the ai rate gradually becomes a secret for graduates who want to take shortcuts is the cost of several tests and a more confusing graduation paper。
