We got an email from someone who was falsely accused of using ChatGPT to generate their essays.
My name is XXX I am a XXX year old XX student at XXX. I am currently being falsely accused of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) on an assignment of mine. The AI detector is used through the company "Turnitin".
I am contacting you because I am interested in discussing this subject with someone who is willing to listen.
I have contacted Turnitin's support multiple times and they refuse to provide me with any help. I initially took this up with my professor, however, he is unwilling to listen to me. I then proceeded to the department head, and she is chosing not to respond to me at all. I am receiving a zero on an assignment that I wrote by hand.
@timnitGebru @Wolven hi. Former pre-IPO Blackboarder here, and I can only say that really sounds like the turn it in we knew back in the day.
@gewalker @timnitGebru The thing is, turnitin ALREADY ADMITTED that their "gpt-checker" generates more false positives than should be countenanced in a tool like this, and research shows that that rate is higher for non-native speakers AND neurotivergent individuals. It should not ever be used, let alone trusted as a certainty
@Wolven @gewalker @timnitGebru this, and people who don't walk with a spare Bayes ruler in their pocket shouldn't be working with anything that gives false positive/negative results.
AND the company should be sued into hell for misrepresentation of their shitty product.
Ditto for the uni that buys into that bullshit.
