
**Parent (suing PAUSD over AI cheating accusation at Paly, thoughts?**
Palo Alto Online is reporting that a Paly sophomore's essay got flagged by Turnitin as 76% AI-generated. Teacher had him retake it in class, he got a D, final grade dropped to a C. Dad submitted around 1,200 pages of drafts and revision history to refute it. Family is now suing PAUSD in federal court for discrimination, due process, and retaliation.
The parent, Takashi Kato, is reportedly the CEO and founder of an AI company.
PAUSD has no formal AI policy. Vanderbilt and others have disabled Turnitin's AI detector over reliability issues.
Thoughts?