r/AccusedOfUsingAI

I am being accused of AI use and the teacher is being very unprofessional and I feel like im being treated unfairly. I've tried to provide proof and have multiple people who could vouch for me about my essay but it seems like he doesn't even care. I'm neurodivergent and sometimes I have unique ways of doing assignments but it's never been a problem before. I don't know what to do about this and am tired of trying to defend myself when he already has made his mind up. I've taken multiple classes in the pass that have dealt with the topic the paper is about and my own opinions involved in the paper are one's that I've spent years in therapy about. I feel like he's treating me like an idiot and he's even said things in my paper are things I couldn't possibly know about because we didn't talk about in class. Any advice on what to do or how to go about this without attacking him would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everyone (another one of these)

I’m a third year student on a mandatory year abroad programme, and have been strong-armed into admitting I used AI.

For one of my modules our lecturer has been on a warpath with 15 students (ish) being called in for meetings. I got my grade back on a Tuesday, to randomly get an email on Friday morning asking for a same day meeting. I arranged it for straight after my 08:30-10:30 seminar as I had done nothing wrong.

Jump to me being accused of using AI for the entirety of my assignment. She was already 100% convinced that I had and there was no convincing her otherwise. She asked me what paper I used to form my position (I had written it nearly 3 weeks prior and done nearly 3 other assignments since then) and various other questions. Apparently document history was evidence I could have faked, I was happy for her to look at my ChatGPT history (I delete everything after each query, way to look guilty), writing assignments I kind of just raw dog it on one document so I have little to no paper trail of my train of thought.

She then said that I could either admit to it then and there to accept a lesser punishment or she would tear my assignment to shreds in front of me. Knowing I wouldn’t be able to answer 95% of the questions she would ask, therefore I had to admit guilt. Her only proof was that it was”read like very good AI” and that I couldn’t recall anything but the vaguest thing about the assignment.

In short, resulted in getting a 0 for that assignment worth 30% of my grade. I need to pass to be able to finish my degree next year, if not I’ll have to delay graduating an entire year for one lousy module. I have 10 days now to appeal it, reading back I don’t even like some of my arguments. I always acknowledge AI when I have used it, for this one I used it to help phrase the task into a question (we were given 4 bullet points and a statement).

I’m going home in 8 days and I don’t know if I have the will to be able to fight it successfully. Sorry for the slightly disorganised post. (I also have a naturally guilty expression so she used that against me).

Is there anyway to argue this or should I just cut my losses?

First always always always read your schools academic integrity policy. I would actually recommend you read it every semester because it might change. A lot of schools have updated theirs as ai has become more common. You may read your schools academic integrity policy and be surprised by what is considered dishonesty. For example at my school using the same work for multiple classes without permission is a violation.

Second if you used ai I would just admit you used ai. Most students do. Sometimes it’s actually harder not to I mean ai is integrated into a majority of search platforms. A lot of professors I have talked to have said they have noticed their students using ai and how they go about it really depends on the professor. The board I am on only hears cases if a student appeals a formal charge and formal charges are very rare. They usually only happen if a student committed an egregious act of academic dishonesty that affected other people or has had multiple informal charges. Even though your integrity policy may explicitly prohibit all ai use your individual professor may allow it or even encourage it for parts of the assignment which is why it’s important to have a clear idea of what is allowed. But if you are ever accused of ai it’s always best to be completely honest and transparent about how you wrote what you wrote.

third the board I am on also hears grievances against professors. If you think your professor who is accusing you of ai is unfairly targeting you this could be the path you may want to go down. Each universities grievance policy is different, not all universities have their grievance board and academic integrity board together. Now filing a grievance is not always something I recommend if you are going to have to take a class with the professor again but it could result in your paper getting graded or the grade not counting.

Let me know if you guys have any questions

I am doing an access to HE course with an online provider and have had one of my assignments returned to me unmarked due to “a significant part of it being generated or refined using AI”.
I have not used AI at all, in fact I’m quite against it. They are basing their allegations on two AI detector websites and when I ran my work through them they both displayed different results so I feel they are unreliable. Both websites also clearly state they should not be used as the sole basis of academic penalties.

I wrote an email to the course manager explaining that I have not used AI, offering to share my google docs version history that shows timestamped edits, highlighted inconsistencies in the findings of the AI detectors and also shared that I’m autistic which can affect the way I think and write, resulting in my writing sometimes seeming “overly structured and methodical”. I have always submitted work with a high academic standard so this essay was consistent with the quality I am able to achieve.
Throughout my essay I have used sources which I have referenced appropriately in text and in the reference list.

I received an email back this morning from them which did not acknowledge any of the points I made. They simply said “When you run your essay through each scanner, what percentage of AI does it show? AI should be a an absolute maximum of 20%, and ideally 0%.”

The scanner showed 31.5% yesterday and 29% today. The exact same text with the exact same AI detection website.

I really don’t know what to do as they don’t seem to be listening to me and simply keep referring back to their unreliable AI detectors.

If I get kicked off this course or I am not able to complete it then I’ll miss the opportunity to go to uni this year which would be devastating as I’ve made a lot of sacrifices, work arrangements, housing decisions etc because of it. I’m a mature student and I really am very keen to go this year. I’m so worried and just don’t know what to do.
Any advice or help is much appreciated 🙏

I turned in my rough draft(not a grade just for feedback) to my professor and was told that it was flagged for 80% Possible Ai , I wasn’t penalized/reported atleast as it wasnt a grade and was simply feedback for me to go and make revisions. I didnt use ai and spent alot of time on this essay, my thesis and sources were previously approved by the professor. What should I do atp, the final draft is due in a couple of days and I cant rewrite this essay.

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You suspect a student didn't write their essay, so you have to pull them aside, ask them to explain their work, maybe escalate it. But even when you're right, the whole process feels adversarial. And if you're wrong, you've just damaged trust with that student.

The core problem is that most approaches to this start with "did you write this?" this puts you in detective mode. I wanted to flip that to "do you understand what you turned in?" and make it something the whole class does together, not just the individual you're suspicious of.

I posted in here a while back and it got a ton of interest from teachers. Since then, we've spent time building it and running a successful pilot in real classrooms. We understand a lot of educators have strong opinions on AI use in class, but the sheer amount of interest generated last post and our pilot tells us many of you would find a tool like this invaluable to have on your side.

So we built a tool where:

1. Students upload their essay/report/research paper to your assignment
2. The app reads each submission and generates personalized quiz questions. Different for every student, based on their own writing (thesis choices, evidence, structure, content)
3. You launch a short timed session for the whole class. Everyone answers questions about their own work.

Because every student takes it, nobody is singled out. But if someone can't answer basic questions about their own paper, that's a clear signal, and it's a lot easier to have a conversation grounded in quiz results than a gut feeling. It also gives you documentation if things do need to escalate. It’s the better, faster alternative to: Wondering how the words got on the page (ultimately unprovable), sacrificing entire days to in class pen and paper, relying on arbitrary AI detectors' percentages, or 1 on 1 student meetings.

What we didn't expect is how engaging it is for both sides. Students end up reflecting on their own writing; explaining why they chose a piece of evidence, what they were trying to do with their structure, what their thesis actually means. It's basically commentary on their own thought process while they were writing. And for teachers, reading those responses is like getting a window into each student's thinking that you'd never get from the essay alone.

We've made it into a side-by-side experience: the essay and the student's own insights about it. We call it Dubbel and can be found here. Dubbel is FERPA complaint.

A few things worth noting:

• The app uses AI to generate the questions, so you'd need to be comfortable with that.
• You stay in control of how to interpret and act on results. It's a tool, not a verdict.
• Works for any written assignment: literary analysis, argumentative, research, creative writing.
• Requires an in-class proctor for the short timed portion to prevent recheating

I'm looking for a few ELA teachers willing to join this beta so we can get honest feedback. If you have questions, comment or please message me! Join at: dubbel.me