Accused of using AI on a Term Paper
I genuinely never thought this would happen to me, but I’m a graduate student in environmental science and I was just accused of using AI to write a 13 page paper that I actually wrote myself.
My professor said the paper flagged as “100% AI generated” on three different AI detectors. For context, I did not use AI in any capacity on this assignment. I researched it myself, wrote it myself, cited everything myself, and spent so long on it. The Turnitin similarity score was only around 15%, and most of that was citations/reference formatting.
What’s frustrating is that the paper was written in a very professional scientific style. From what I’ve been reading, that seems to be exactly the kind of writing AI detectors falsely flag. Has anyone else had this happen to you? and if so what was the outcome? I'm worried about being kicked out of school.