So as I am working on my last prerequisite for nursing I was told to submit my essays through TurnItIn first then to student portal. Now they flagged my essays as being AI even though I never used it. It’s frustrating because this is the last class I need to get into nursing school and they dropped my grade from 100 to a 40. I could scream.
I was drafting a personal essay about AI as assistive technology, using blindness and VoiceOver as the central frame. The essay begins with two blind men who affected my life in different ways, then widens into a larger meditation on the forms of blindness we do not usually name: social blindness, moral blindness, executive dysfunction, and the way people fail to recognize forms of assistance they have never needed.
The argument that emerged was that assistive technology is often misunderstood because people judge technology by what it replaces or automates rather than by what it restores. For a blind person, VoiceOver is not a convenience feature. It is access, orientation, independence, and sometimes presence. It gives language to a world that might otherwise become harder to navigate.
That became the metaphor for my own use of AI. AI has functioned less like a shortcut and more like a kind of VoiceOver for the blank page. It helps me hear structure, organize fragments, and see the shape of an argument I may not be able to reach through ordinary drafting alone. The experiences, judgments, revisions, refusals, and final voice remain mine, but the tool gives me access to a form of composition that would otherwise remain partially obscured.
Then I tried to submit the essay.
The submission form required me to certify, as a condition of submitting, that I had not used AI in creating the piece. I could not check that box honestly, so I did not submit.
That felt like the evidentiary problem I’ve been working on in grad school, but no longer in the abstract. The venue did not ask what role AI played, whether the use was disclosed, whether the work remained meaningfully authored, or whether the process involved accountable steering. It asked for the crudest possible guarantee: no AI at all.
The irony was hard to miss. An essay arguing that AI can restore vision, access, and capability was blocked by a rule that had no category for assistive, disclosed, human-directed use. The policy could distinguish “used AI” from “did not use AI,” but it could not distinguish generated filler from accountable authorship.
That seems to me like a failure of vision in exactly the sense the essay is trying to explore. The people writing these policies are often trying to defend authorship, but they may be blind to the forms of authorship that assistive technologies make possible.
I do not have a clean answer, which is partly why I wanted to share it. It felt like the ideas about collaborative writing with AI been working through showing up in the wild, at exactly the point where theory becomes a checkbox.
As the title said. I literally worked so hard on this essay and he gave me a 0 on it. I don’t know what to do this could quite literally ruin the rest of my high school career I cannot have less than a 90 in this class.
I was supposed to work on my assignments in a Google doc, but I’ve been using word because I didn’t know, so he can’t check it. I will HAPPILY rewrite this essay if it means getting a a decent grade because AFTER he gave me the 0 on the essay worth 10% OF MY GRADE he gave me 2 0s on quizzes because I exceeded the time limit I didn’t know existed. I’m so scared and I can’t even prove I didn’t do it man I’ve checked all my past files and there isn’t anything.
This is for a college class so it could really screw me over. Also, I sent him an email about rewriting it and I think he forgot about it because he didn’t respond to that but did respond to a different email of mine, so any help with that would be great too.
been lurking here a while and it gets to me how many of you are in the same spot, you wrote the thing yourself, turnitin or gptzero slaps an "ai" score on it, and now you're defending work you did
for anyone who went through the appeal and came out ok, what worked for you? trying to figure out what's real advice vs noise for the people still stuck in it
stuff i keep seeing come up:
google docs version history (file - version history) showing the doc built up over days instead of one big paste
pointing at the detector's own false-positive rate instead of arguing "i didn't do it"
keeping the email to the prof calm and procedural, not panicked
what am i missing? and for the ones that got overturned, was it the evidence, the meeting, or the prof backing off once you pushed back?
Has anyone else gotten their fic bookmarked, and the note the person added claims that your fic uses AI-generated content?
This happened to me today, and I reported the user because they've done it to other people too. They have no works, and only have saved fics that they claim use AI. Even their username is all about accusing people of using AI. Their whole account is dedicated to call out AI-usage, and I also hate AI, but this situation is absurd.
I know that AI is allowed to a certain exctent on Ao3 (right?), but this rubbed me the wrong way. Was I right to report it?
This is my first semester back to school since AI became a thing.
When i realized how to use AI, I just used it to help me write, I basically wrote every sentence in to copilot and had it reframe my writing to something that sounded cohesive. I had ai ask my questions while I wrote, prompt me. All the arguments, were my own, I just had ai help me keep out of the reeds. I then asked ai to polish my essay to a high grade based on the ruberic. I constantly asked AI if my work was my own. I had no intention of using AI to generate a paper. Turnitin caught me at 100%. crazy.
None of this was intentional. I am studying from overseas so there was nowhere I could ask about this.
I just submitted another paper, even though the above mess is still in effect and unresolved.
I made sure I did the work on my own, AI helped me figure out what to read and helped me summarize. Readings I could then summarize - only auxiliary books that I couldn’t be bothered reading, just needed the source count. I then check grammarly for an ai voice. And it came up as 0% I then used grammarly to edit my spelling and such, then realized I could use grammarly to entirely give my assignment a polish. I stopped. I just had it delete words that were unnecessary to get closer to my word count. I hope that that paper is not flagged for ai, I doubt it will be, I intentionally didn’t go over it too much, I didn’t even read it.
How do we use AI ethically for our assignments?
How do we not get flagged for AI?
Someone please help me…I know I was dumb to use AI. I don’t want a lecture on what not to do, just what I CAN do to fix the situation.
My assignment was due a few days ago at 11:59 pm, I had written a draft on it and forgot that it needed to be finished. It was currently 11:50. I took the questions that needed to be answered and put it into chatgpt, and chatgpt answered the questions for me. I put it into the blackboard discussion post, then it was around 11:56 where I had to reply to 2 people and I copy and pasted that as well from ChatGPT. I got a 0 and my teacher commented saying he had questions on my posts, and that he wanted to set up a virtual meeting ASAP.
I was thinking about telling him the truth? I feel like a big hypocrite (I am) because my essay and previous written work was written very well without AI and I had done very well in this class until a few days ago where I desperately rushed to submit my discussion post assignment. (Not an excuse, I know 🫤) The professor would reply and comment saying how he liked this, how he was impressed, etc.
Does anyone have any advice on what I can do to kind of help my situation? I was also thinking about saying that I just took my own words and told chat to make it longer for me so that I could submit the assignment in time. I have very very strong ties to the college, I’m involved in a lot of organizations and clubs, even student government.
Once again, I’m not looking for a “You are a disgrace” kind of replies, or any pity. Please :/
I have given my IELTS 3 times in the past 2 months. I am so sure the examiners are using AI to grade our essays. I get my essays checked by AI and I always consistently get 7. I thought actual examiners have to be more lenient. What is the point if they are using AI to correct it, they have no purpose anymore. It’s so frustrating that most of them think it’s either 8/7 but no in between. I really need a 7.5 for writing and I have no idea what else to do. The last 3 attempts I got a 7 and in my last attempt I made sure there were minimal errors. I’m so sick and tired of this. This time last year, I had already achieved an 8 in writing twice. It’s not like my writing has worsened in a year’s time. Are there any safeguards put in place by IELTS to avoid this?
I have published four books on Amazon and I have eight short stories and two full length works on Google books. I’m always recommending my work to other people on Facebook, threads, and here on Reddit. Three times now people have accused me of using AI to write my books and this morning usually I don’t get so offended, but I actually stated that my degree in English is offended because it took me seven years going to school at night and working in the day to get it and $60,000. I was supposed to teach, but I learned that I was not meant to be a teacher. I’m not that great of a writer either but I like my stories and I think other people do too and I get a lot of compliments. My worst thing is grammar tense and making sure that I’m clear. So for both my two latest books that were published in February 2021 in February 2023 I hired an editor to correct for me on Fiverr. She was not the greatest editor and she missed some things so there are grammatic errors in the work but not much but now I’m really happy they’re there because AI would never let anything like that go they would be no mistakes so it adds to the proof that I wrote it But there’s anybody else having this issue?
I worked really hard on these works. I’m trying to convey ideas and messages through them and to be accused of just typing a prompt in to a website in getting over 100 pages spit out bothers me. I’m lucky again that they were published way before AI became everywhere and there are mistakes in them. It’s very annoying