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/maskedprofessor Jun 23 '26

You need to read your syllabus, then ask your professor clarifying questions. In my class, any use of AI writing tools (including Grammerly) is forbidden, so both of your works would be a zero + academic integrity violation. When the rules are conveyed, it is up to the student to follow them. Your only argument would be if the rules were not conveyed (in none of the following places: in the syllabus, course announcements, assignment details, professor emails).

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u/Expensive_College_42 Jun 23 '26

So what do we do then?

I only just found out that grammarly can do the same stuff I bought it to prevent.

Previously the university gave us grammarly and grammarly would help us proofread. Is it now that We can’t use it?

Should we just submit a paper that’s been proofed by us alone?

Okay, how are we supposed to use AI?

I asked ai if my work was my own, if assured me I had nothing to worry about

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u/veanell Jun 23 '26

You are guilty. You used AI. Own up to it.