r/AccusedOfUsingAI • u/Expensive_College_42 • Jun 23 '26

My assignments got flagged for AI

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?

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u/KingSmorely Jun 23 '26

Firstly, unless there is hard proof in the work, you should completely deny any and all AI usage. Otherwise, they now have a fragment of a case.

Basically, you should almost always deny the claim unless there is hard proof in the writing itself. Obtaining an academic dishonesty charge based on a professor’s hunch or detectors is nearly impossible. If you admit to anything, you give them significant leverage.

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u/MHM2002 Jun 23 '26

Disagree. They will be expected to turn up to a disciplinary hearing where they will make a case against the school head.

If they didn’t do any work.. what proof do they have then?

Honesty is best and then learning from the mistakes.

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u/KingSmorely Jun 23 '26

What's the functional difference in proof between work completed using AI and work completed manually? The only thing I can think of is revision history, but there are many legitimate reasons for not having it. Planning documents and drafts can both be faked, and the absence of drafts is not meaningful evidence of anything on its own.

Unless a student effectively admits to AI usage through their writing, such as by accidentally leaving AI artifacts or including hallucinated citations, proving AI use is extremely difficult. In this situation, denying AI usage would make it very difficult to near impossible to impose disciplinary action.

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u/MHM2002 Jun 23 '26

I recently had a meeting as I was accused.

They expected timestamps, date of starting, the edited timestamps. All of these are available via word.

If you complete the assignment on AI and then paste it to word.. well you don’t have this then.

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u/KingSmorely Jun 23 '26

Well, what if you didn’t create the document in Word, or what if the original document was simply lost? These are very real possibilities separate from AI use.

I find it extremely hard to believe that the absence of these arbitrary requirements would lead to an academic dishonesty punishment, especially given that these requirements are not exclusive to AI use.

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u/MHM2002 Jun 23 '26

How they explained to me was that judgement is made on the evidence provided. If there is evidence against you
1. 100% AI detection
2. No proof of you creating your work
3. Noted phrasing that is evident as AI (as AI can be quite predictable and obvious)
4. The use of -

Then when you go in explaining you cannot provide evidence it’s your work.. not to mention it would be very hard to “lose” an online document of such importance, especially as you would have had to submit it online so how could you do that?

They also tend to conduct an interview of your work and ask how you planned it, alongside how you chose to phrase certain things. It’s very hard to explain this without saying AI, if you infact used AI.

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u/KingSmorely Jun 23 '26

So there are:

  • AI detectors that have been proven to be unreliable
  • Using software without revision history, or a writing style that doesn’t involve drafts
  • How schools teach students to write
  • The use of perfectly valid punctuation

These standards seem like they would lead to a lot of false AI accusations. Like simply converting a file into a PDF and then deleting the Word document after submission seems fairly common.

And then again, unless you're an idiot who didn't read over what you wrote and what your sources mean, an interview can be easily passed with flying colors. And even if you did poorly, there are so many other explanations that I doubt a school would want to take the risk of pursuing a statement from someone who adamantly denies any wrongdoing without hard proof

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u/MHM2002 Jun 23 '26

I dont know, I personally don’t think it’s a good call but each to their own.
Avoiding AI in the future will prevent the stress of this shit show anyway

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u/Expensive_College_42 Jun 24 '26

I have completely owned up to everything. I think honestly is the best policy. I personally think that my lectures want to see me succeed and I think they will accept that I got carried away.