r/AccusedOfUsingAI

So I have an essay due in two days which I finished all 1500 words by myself using Google Scholar and actual research articles. It is fully referenced and has a bibliography. Usually, I run my finished writing through multiple ai detectors because I am paranoid about being accused of ai and failing. I already have had an issue with my tutor regarding my attendance in zoom classes where she said I only attended one the whole year which was simply not true so I'm worried she might have it out for me.

Anyways, I run my essay through multiple checkers and they all come back with over 80-100% usage which is insane I simply did not use it. I took the opportunity to edit it properly, get rid of runoff sentences and ran through and I wa getting even more ai similarity. What should I do? Are there any words or phrases that make teachers think ai is being used or what?

EDIT: I submitted it and it went through turnitin and I got 2% similarity but not sure if that relates to ai percentage but i found that so weird because it didnt even highlight my bibliography

im on my second semester of dual enrollment class and the semester is ending in a week. apparently for the past couple of weeks my professor has been commenting on my work and saying that i have used ai, in which i didnt see her messages up until now.

she ended up messaging me on canvas saying she thinks my work is ai because i used too many capitalizations and too many stress marks and that my writing looked too messy to be human.

i was honestly really confused when i saw it and replied back to her message explaining myself and i even sent her links and resources ive used to study and learn how to use stress marks properly in the language we are learning. ill admit i mightve used them a bit too much in some assignments but i dont really understand how that automatically equals to ai. and all this is being questioned a week before the end of the semester... in her message she wrote that if i dont start writing myself she will fail me as my grade is already as low as it can be? also i just took my seal of biliteracy test at my highschool like a week ago so now this whole thing is making me stressed, does anyone know if something like her failing me could affect my transcript of seal of biliteracy in any way? im really nervous about that part and i dont really know how this stuff works. im really sad about the whole situation and if she doesnt believe me then i dont know what to do honestly lolol

i hope what i wrote makes sense i wrote this pretty quickly im trying my best to not be scared and sad over this situation

I am literally still shaking even now. I got the email an hour ago for my acceptance. They ran my thesis through 3 AI detectors and decided it was not Ai after all.

Like, my life would have been ruined if I didn’t meet the Dean and literally scream at her. They didn’t care about my life, my mental health and career.

Feeling so relaxed after 72 hours plus of turmoil and can actually sleep properly!

My post is only here to give you hope- Fight for yourself!

(Sorry for wrong formatting or English, just wanted to get it out here ❤️)

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?

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 🙏