Starting out as a law student felt like being thrown into a storm without an umbrella. Case digests, statutory interpretation, endless readings,it was overwhelming.helped me break down complex doctrines, draft outlines faster, and even sharpen my exam prep with mnemonics and comparison tables.

Honestly, it felt like having a study partner who never gets tired.But recently, some schools have banned AI use altogether. I get the concern ,
academic integrity, over-reliance, the fear of students outsourcing thinking. For many of us, AI isn’t a crutch, it’s scaffolding. It helps us build the foundation so we can stand taller on our own.So here I am, caught between gratitude and frustration.

Hey guys, I’m looking for some advice from anyone who has dealt with an academic integrity/AI issue before.
I received a 0 on an assignment and was given an academic integrity violation because one of my citations contained a utm_source=chatgpt.com tracking parameter, which was taken as evidence of AI use. I do want to be transparent that I did use ChatGPT during the research stage to help find/organize potentially relevant sources. However, the course has a complete prohibition on AI use, so I understand that this was against the course policy and I’m prepared to take responsibility for that.
What I’m struggling with is that the actual assignment was written and developed by me. I have an earlier rough draft where the same source was correctly cited, personal annotations on the original research paper, and other research materials showing my engagement with the source. I also previously worked with the citation across an annotated bibliography and a citation resubmission, so I think the tracking parameter may have been carried over somewhere along the way. I’ve looked through my ChatGPT history but unfortunately cannot find the exact conversation that may have resulted in the URL being copied.
I’m not trying to deny the AI use or argue that I followed the policy when I didn’t. I mainly want to explain the circumstances accurately and hopefully move forward from this. Does anyone have advice on how I should approach the instructor/academic integrity process, especially regarding what evidence I should provide and how I should explain the situation?

AI-writing detectors are a thing, I wonder if this professor knew that. The detectors have their own problems, like falsely flagging people who write like LLMs because they're from a place like Kenya that supplied the human labor that trained the LLMs.

Pangram is one AI-writing detector that's reputable. Here's a great list of AI-writing detectors interestingly sourced from a subreddit dedicated to deceiving those same detectors, r/humanizeAIwriting.

Not surprising that a subreddit like that would exist considering that a majority of U.S. teens say they use AI chatbots to help with schoolwork.

KEY QUOTES:

>In this case, the issue is students using AI to cheat on assignments. The solution, used to great effect by one professor, was to hide a white-colored font in the assignment prompt telling the AI to talk nonsense about an unrelated subject.

>In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students' midterm. It was about the Industrial Revolution, but knowing how many students now rely solely on artificial intelligence for their answers, he secretly embedded instructions telling the AI to include information about Madagascar in a way that makes no sense.

>Sure enough, 32 out of the 35 students across two classes simply copied the question, pasted it into a chatbot, then copy and pasted its output into the answer window.

A TikTok vid the professor made about this incident

I am ancient IT consultant who knows how AI works and run local AI models on my Mac.

I see 4 specialists - urologist, haematologist, oncologist and dermatologist which is a result of smocking but I am still kicking.

My urologist retired and my new urologist ask me to sign AI consent form.

While saying he is not using AI he was dictating notes using AI enabled tool to make notes..

This is what we called  AI enabled voice to text( converting voice to text) and we know how unreliable it is.

I talked to my GP and she told me it was now common practice for specialist to use AI to create notes and reports. Instead of a half page summary she was getting pages and pages of text... AI slop..

This dangerous as AI slop is not verified by a specialist and/or read in full by GP.

I search Google and it says:

General practice (GP) time is now compromised by wading through low-value artificial intelligence text, causing professional frustration, lost productivity, and cognitive fatigue.

Faced with AI slop we mostly don’t read it ,rejected or just accept it. It is a known problem.

In medicine AI slop could be fatal. In law life changing…

This is just an impact of Voice to Text AI.

There is more...

We have been using Analytical AI for decades.. It produces analysis which a human interprets it.

Generative AI/LLM analyses and then interprets its result and it has high error rate ranging from 5% to 100%(Google “AI error rates”).

UK NHS has released some of its records for analytical AI analysis used in research not to write medical reports.

Generative AI/LLM models used to produce medical reports could be even more dangerous than AI slop,

If AI was beneficial ,reliable and benign why AI consent form?

Are doctors covering up for AI errors (hallucinations)?

My urologist is happy creating massive documents which nobody reads..

At personal level I find it very offending that my urologist charges me $200 per visit and uses $5 AI tool that I can use.

I am paying for his human knowledge , expertise and AMA accreditation not for some AI /LLM model cooked up in Silicon valley or lately in China.

I want my doctor to be a human doctor who still thinks fax machine is high tech. I will worry about AI.

If you think you are immune from AI impacts think again.

Dear Albo it is time for regulations.

Hey guys,

So wanted to ask about your opinions on using AI in research and how much is unethical? I'm a master's degree student in ECE engineering.

I already posted this in r/antiai btw

This was like a few months ago, but I'm still fucking pissed about this. My English teacher had my entire class do an essay about intolerance in an tolerant society. I put so much effort into my essay, using examples from history such as Martin Luther King's protests. When I first submitted my work, I thought everything would be fine and dandy until I saw my grade. I scored a 1/4, and my teacher left a comment saying, "This was made with AI, redo". I spent my last day of school arguing with him about the legitimacy of my work. Eventually, he caved in and gave me a 3.25/4. This situation has already been taken care of, but I just wanted to talk about this.

I just need to vent.

I requested a revision of my work and even after a 1500-2000 page document detailing everything I've ever done on my papers--they've given me a 0 for insufficient/not-detailed-enough evidence.

I'm pissed, but it is what it is. I just have to write less like a robot or whatever.

It hurts because I know I wrote it, and I loved writing it and researching it--just for any and all credibility of my work to be thrown out the window.

I'm an editor-in-chief of my school's literary magazine for fucks sake.

Yep. . .

As the title reads, I have a literature prof giving me shit for using AI to write all my reading questions, and probably soon the essay I just did. It's been three months now, and for every assignment, I hardly get any feedback. In fact, if I do get feedback, it's her saying that she enjoys reading my responses, but it's flagging 100% AI, so she's gonna count points off. We've had one meeting where she told me to voice-to-text all of my thoughts while reading and then pull out what I need to answer the questions, and after we talked, she told me to be more personal, and maybe the AI score will change. So, I did that for the next assignment, and she gave me a 77 because she didn't like that I made it more personal, and because it also flagged 100% AI again. So I did the assignment one more time and did the same thing, but went back to my “analytical tone” as she loved to describe it, and I got a 90, but it's still 100% AI There have been 2 assignments since then, and they were both also flagged for 100% AI. I have done everything for this teacher. Turn off Grammarly, spell check, and auto-capitalization. I've used her writing method. I have done everything, and she just requested another meeting. I also think it's important to note that she can see my revision history in Google Docs, so she knows I'm typing everything, but that isn't enough for her. My parents and friends think I should involve the dean because she has been so uncooperative in telling me what I should fix, and instead just continues to accuse me of using AI. I have another meeting with her soon, and maybe it will help, but I doubt it. At this point, I'm honestly not sure why she doesn't make us handwrite and mail the pages to her, but idk.

Edit; only posting this here so I can share my story. This happened last semester and the dean was involved. The email I sent to the dean was more or less “ hey your teacher keeps accusing me of using AI. I am not using AI. Can we please have a meeting about this to bring attention to it.” And we had a meeting and he talked to the teacher, and I ended up with a B in the class. I will say the teacher was really passive aggressive towards me after that, and she did continue to accuse me of AI, but instead of telling me that I’m doing something wrong she just started admitting that the bot is wrong. I do believe they’re still an investigation going on, but I’m also not going to that institution anymore so they haven’t contacted me that I know of.