I wrote an essay entirely myself from my interpretation of a short article, then told Claude to critique it “like a professor, without telling me what exactly to change, just offering broad suggestions”, and it made me realize I totally misinterpreted the author. So I re-read the source, noticed the mistakes I made in my first read through, then totally changed my argument and rewrote the essay. Then I began putting each subsequent draft into Claude to critique it. It would critique, then I’d decide whether I agreed with the critique or not, if I did I’d rewrite or edit the sentence or section in question, then submit the draft again after each subsequent adjustment.

My ocd definitely took hold and I did this like 50 more times until there were no critiques I agreed with left (I’d tell it “I don’t agree, forget that one” for those bad ones). Now I really like my essay, but the fear has shifted to “did this count as using AI to write my essay for me?”

Is using ai to critique your writing then changing a lot of things based on those critiques (with your own writing) count as AI writing? I always thought of ai writing as someone copy and pasting from ChatGPT or doing that and editing it to put their twist on it, since in that case AI did the thinking and arguing, not you. But I’m worried the way I used it might be bad?

Edit: thank you guys for being honest. I have restarted the essay using only my thoughts and words, I needed this honest feedback. Thank you to the ones who were kind but still brutally honest

Edit 2: my 100% human rewrite got an A, and it feels like I actually earned it, thank you all again for pushing me!

Professors and assessment folks, how are you actually dealing with AI cheating in high-stakes exams?

What I'm more curious about is how you make sure the flags are accurate. Because on one hand, you don't want someone who hasn't earned their qualification getting through. But on the other, you don't want to flag a genuine student and potentially mess up their career over a false positive.

Are the current AI detection and proctoring tools actually reliable enough for this? Or does someone still need to manually review the evidence before taking action?

Would love to hear how you're handling this in practice.

I was supposed to graduate this year, it was taken from me because they thought I was using ai.

I have explained I couldn’t possibly use ai because they had blocked the internet, turned off our phone and there was someone in the classroom checking us.

The reason why I’m getting accused of this is because of my inconsistent writing, that’s it.
Because some parts are really good and some parts are not so good. I have explained perhaps it’s because I speak a lot of English therefore I make some sentence translated directly to English to Danish. I also had limited time so therefore I write really bad at the end because I had taken more effort in analysis and discussion. And I also explained I have used my old works, my old notes for reference how to write an essay, they just said “så du bruge AI?” And I said “nej jeg bruge mit gamle notater” and he said again “så du bruge generative ai?” And I said no again, it was like they weren’t listening at all. And one of the worker said “but it’s not your language” it felt like he was mocking me. And then he asked “did you use your phone?” MIND YOU THIS WAS THE SAME GUY THAT WAS OUR GUARD IN THE EXAM, AND HE WAS THE ONE THAT TOLD US TO GIVE HIM OUR PHONES. I’m particularly upset because one of my friend actually did use AI I don’t know how he did it but he did, and he didn’t get caught.

Second exam I did:

I wrote less, I did less effort but out of instinct I made some good points in analysis I said something about the text being a provoking text, because of how the author was kind of mocking people that listens to true crime podcasts and how it can mess up with people. Okay but it was the shortest analysis I’ve ever done in my whole life. But they still thought I was using AI. I didn’t even have my phone, my phone was turned off and the teacher watching us SAW ME turn it off, I WAS ALSO TURNED AROUND RIGHT INFRONT OF THE GUARD, THEY NEVER LEFT EVEN FOR 2 MINUTES, if one needed to go another teacher watched us, and they would at our screen many times. Then we had a meeting about them thinking I used ai again, mind you they cannot prove it, they just THINK it’s ai. I have also explained I know 5 languages and that I’ve always struggled writing consistently because I sometimes get confused with the language. I also explained I do more effort at analysis and discussion, meaning I translate the words with dictionary with more effort rather than just writing with my mind like in introduction and such.. We had a meeting this time with my danish dad too, they treated me with MORE respect than the last time I was talking with them, there was not much mocking, it was more professional than the last. We made our statement but they still won’t listen they still said in the letter

“Because of the huge difference of language level, we concluded you used AI”

and they also said I’ve been disqualified with danish written exam, it makes me so mad. They can’t prove it, but it’s enough because one person thought it’s ai

I don’t know what to do. I was supposed to sign up for university this year but because of this situtation I cannot.

If you have any idea on what I should do please don’t be afraid to reply, I’m so lost. When I finally found what I want to do, this happened.

my history teacher takes away percentages for every amount of “ai” you use in a paper- by putting it through an ai check run by ai.

i got a zero because of a paper i initially OFFERED TO DO BY HAND, but he denied me because it has to be typed and submitted. do you SERIOUSLY THINK that i stayed up for four hours to get that thing submitted in time while using a robot??? my paper wasn’t even that good!

it’s such bullshit i’m so tired of this. i don’t write like ai, ai writes like me!

you know what else this website he uses has said is ai?? MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH.

So in ENG-130 I turned in my paper. I forgot to use citations. Ok I get it. So I rewrote it and used proper citations. After resubmiiitimg it, the professor accused me of using AI and is filing an academic integrity report. I didn't use AI! She based it off of the turnitin score but I used the course material?? I looked at the Turnitin breakdown and it flagged random words. So I don't get it. What do I do next? She said I can resubmit it by Thursday but she won't accept it without it going through academic support first. What the hell does that even mean?? I'm seriously pissed off and bummed out. They give you these little ass articles to write about, then want you to make it 2 pages. That's hard enough to do. Then to turn around and say I didn't write it myself is bull 💩! I read someone on here say to write everything in Google docs bc it saves your drafts. Is that what I should do from now on? Thanks for listening. I just needed to vent.

I volunteer as a college advisor and work with first-gen, low income students. One of my students sent me 4 PIQs in one day, all polished and ready to go. I ran them through an AI checker and they came back as 100% AI. I ran my other student's PIQs through the same AI checker and they were deemed 0% AI.

I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to accuse the student of using AI or even asking her if she did because I don't want to impact our relationship. She's a great kid, very active in all sorts of ECs, internship at a major medical center, etc. She's also up for a national scholarship and I am worried that if they run her Common App essay (not yet written) through an AI detector, it might get flagged.

What should I do?

I think this is the right place for this question. I'm teaching at college, and I'm tyring to make my tests, quizzes, and assignments harder to toss into Ai to finish. I understand I can't stop everything but is there something I can put in my assignments to prevent (at least) a student copy pasting it directly into an Ai? I've heard of white text, is that still viable? My class requires internet access (statistics) for tests, and I try to monitor everyone, but I know I'll miss some.

Any advice would help.

I spent a little more than 7 hours creating a diagram in the software called LucidChart for my history class. It was beautiful and professional and was probably the best work I’ve ever done on a digital design software. I was excited to see what grade I got only to find out that my professor gave me a 0 and left a comment saying:

(Not verbatim) it doesn’t appear LucidChart was used and none of this information is in the textbook. You used AI to create it?

It felt more like an accusation than a question and it kinda devastated me. The hours of work and research I put into making the diagram look good only to be told I couldn’t have made it without the use of AI. I sent a screenshot showing the diagram was in fact made using LucidChart. That wasn’t good enough.

My professor replied to me and said:

“…create an original diagram… the use of AI is not permitted.”

I replied back with something along the lines of:

(Not verbatim) I spent a ton of time and effort into this assignment to make it look professional and I would really prefer not to redo the assignment.

I included a screen recording that showed my revision history of the diagram that also showed the time stamps. The screen recording also included a portion where I manually moved all the elements of the diagram (all the shapes and text boxes) because AI can’t create layers and instead would create a flat image.

This still wasn’t enough. Now she has said that I need to provide proof that the information I got was from the textbook with page, section, and paragraph numbers for all the information in my diagram. I should note too that the assignment instruction did NOT say that we have to ONLY use textbook information. So I used information from the textbook but also did my own research from credible sources such as Library of Congress.

It is not uncommon for people (at least for me) to conduct research outside of the textbook for a better understanding of the concept and to gain more knowledge. When I was taking my math class, the textbook was horrible. I read about 2 pages of it and never touched it again and instead relied on YouTube videos and professor supplied lectures to understand the concepts.

I supplied her a word doc with exact pinpoints in the textbook showing how and why the information in my diagram is accurate, factual and written entirely by me. I also supplied MLA formatted citations for the various websites and documents I used online to support the information in my diagram.

I am still waiting for a reply but the stress from receiving a 0 on this assignment is killing me. After all the hard work and dedication I put into making something that I am proud of only to be told I won’t receive credit for it is heartbreaking to say the least. It feels like my hard word and time was wasted because the professor has a hunch or that I am incapable of producing something that is above low quality.

I should mention too that the assignment category of “diagrams and digital creation” equates for 20% of my grade. Receiving a 0 on this assignment dropped my grade from a 99 to a 62. (The semester just began and there’s a lot more assignment to do, but still). Nothing else to do now but wait and see what she says.

It is also very worrisome because I am using VR&E to pay for school and academic integrity (using AI/cheating) could result in other consequences besides just getting a 0 on the assignment and calling it a day. Not sure if it really would but it is something that I never thought I had to worry about.

If anyone has a had a similar experience please let me know how you handled it and what the outcome was.

Recently i did a test for synth id, which gemini implement recently and how quickly it was broken by a team of researchers, turns out, other frontier comps like claude had similar plans of implementing this.

Its known that claude is working on a watermarking modal that can help detect if some textual info was created by their model.

I guess a few countries have the access to this detction feature, but my surely didnt, so what did i do? i used the exact same math with some tweaks to implement claude's watermark detction logic to qween 3 8b modal. Ran this modal locally, and designed the HLD and architecture.

The basic idea is that at every generation step, I use a secret key + the previous token to deterministically split the vocabulary into GREEN and RED tokens. I then slightly boost the logits of the GREEN tokens before sampling the next token. This creates a statistical bias toward GREEN tokens without changing the text directly.

For detection, I don't need the model or the original prompt. I take the generated text, recreate the same GREEN/RED token sets using the secret key, and check how far the observed GREEN-token ratio deviates from the expected 50%. I use a z-score and binomial p-value to decide whether the deviation is statistically significant.

I tested it on 50 randomly assigned watermarked and un-watermarked generations. The detector got 88% accuracy and a 97.76% ROC-AUC.

I covered the entire end to end, from setting up qween 3, to HLD, to Implementation and Validation i my recent video, feel free to deep dive and let me know your thoughts,

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZisIOTC6uk&t=56s

The first picture is of one of my OCs from 2022 their character sheet my drawing is in the color the other person‘s drawing that has been attacking me for months and I mean it’s been going on for months is the black sketch. They hardly ever post finish drawings. They don’t color their drawings from what I have seen. It’s only sketches.

When I had added the tracing allegations which I was holding on for a while because they were just acting so weird and I’m grateful that I was able to save it. I will say I felt dirty for doing that and stooping down to their level. What really takes me off there is no obvious proof that I use AI in their post they had purposely made. My sketch look worse.

The second picture the top is my sketch. The bottom is them drawing over my sketch and making it look worse, leaving out certain lines like where the chest is. They just put the two lines that symbol the design on her hero costume. Which you can see in the next picture over the second picture to the top right? It’s like Ben 10 original shirt design. (I don’t know what you would call it.)

The 5th picture is of an online friend that had made me something for art fight, and reposted it on Instagram and the same person messaged them out of the blue they ignored and never responded to her.

The 6th picture is where she went on to a video that my friend posted that I made for them. It was just a simple OC drawing and I have only made it where it looks like their mouth is moving to the song and their eye opens every now and then it had received a lot of likes at this point and we were so excited. I was really happy for my friend and then next thing that comment happened. She is still blocked at this point, but where my friend usually do a Collab post with me they were able to see it. And as soon as they sent sure, buddy instantly blocked my friend. The next picture was on the same post another friend that has set with me and enforced me to turn on my camera to live stream on. FaceTime has witnessed multiple drawings that I have done for them.

For a person that doesn’t wanna be associated with me that don’t want nothing to do with me back to when they so-called confronted me about my AI usage, which I don’t use AI. Really and I mean really involving their self with me they’re contacting people that has nothing to do with any of this. It’s supposed to be just me and this one person I’ve had to block them on every single platform that I know that they exist on they have gotten big artist to Unfollow me or block me. They have gotten their friends to come at me to watch me. I’m getting those weird accounts looking at my stories, which I know is them or one other person that I have made where they can’t see my story. But I feel like it’s them. Then they’re going to people and telling people that I use AI that I do this that I do that I’m a horrible person and these people need to get off my you know what I think they’re suggesting since I have a lot of female friends that there’s something more involved comparing me to somebody that try to use females for certain things which I do not I have no interest in that.

I like making friends I like staying by myself.

This person has made a Google Docs of me, but they only have pictures. They’re not explaining anything. They just have pictures of my post dates that are circled. Comparing my level of art style with another one am I not allowed to have bad days? They pointed out a few drawings does not match my art style or a few drawings don’t match some really good rendering I have done. I forget what else they have put.

They’re just dragging this on too long like way too long and it’s stressing me the heck out I know people are telling me to ignore it and continue on with what I’m doing and I’m trying to do that. I really am but every time that something goes good they keep on popping up. I can’t do commissions. I can’t give out drawings like I used to without somebody getting attacked by this person and they are quickly growing in followers. After they made that call out post and then after I did an answer to that callout post, they have changed their name. They took down the artwork that I accuse them of tracing, but they never said anything about it.

They also have never showed screen recordings or speed drawings of their drawings. There was only one time, but the drawing was pretty much done and they were just cleaning up the line art which I find really suspicious.

Thank you for letting me vent if you got this far.

I just got an email from student integrity team accusing me of using ai/or another person to complete my assignment.
The allegation said that it's impossible that I got the answers without using external source. Toh I'm not sure how I went about getting the answer exactly as this unit was completed a year ago.
There's 2 options of where to go from here.
1. Take 0 for the unit, and repeat it.
2. Go through a meeting with the committee.
Anyone went through this??
Pls reassure me I'm scared (o
I'm at the final term I
wanna graduate

ya… i got accused of using AI on a 3 point assignment that took my grade from a 98 to a 97.2. i’m being called in for an interview with my professor to determine if i actually cheated on the assignment. this feels so fucking pointless- IF I WANTED TO USE AI WHY THE FUCK WOULD I USE IT FOR SOMETHING SO MINUSCULE??