AI-Written Homework Is Rising. So Are False Accusations.
Mira is a student of international business at the Artevelde University of Applied Sciences in Belgium. She recently received feedback on one of her papers—and was shocked to see that her instructor noted that an artificial intelligence detector flagged 40 percent of her paper as being written by a bot. The feedback left her confused and turning to Twitter for help.
“I just knew I hadn’t used AI, and it made me worried about the quality of my own work,” Mira, whose last name has been withheld to protect her identity, told The Daily Beast. She ended up discussing it with her professor, telling him that she didn’t know how she could prove she wrote the paper. He agreed to check it again—but she hasn’t heard back from him yet.
This is obviously stressful for her. If the detector continues to flag it at 40 percent she’ll fail the assignment, and potentially the whole class. It’s also made Mira more scared of writing essays in the future. As someone who is a non-native English speaker, it makes her struggles with the language all the more difficult