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.
I am attaching the "AI report" of my assignment to this email. It states that 67% of my paper was written by AI, which is untrue. I am trying to understand exactly what makes these sentences so special? Why does my writing appear to be AI generated? I have tried understanding Turnitin's methods of distinguishing AI, and
I still do not see how it fits within my writing. Is there any chance you may shed some light on the situation? If this zero ends up affecting my final grade, I will be submitting an appeal. If that doesn't work, then I will be taking the issue to my local news networks.
I really enjoy writing, and take my time to ensure the quality is professional. I currently stand with a 4.0 GPA and am a member of the President's Honor Roll at my University. I makes me ill to see so many honest students, such as myself, being falsely accused of cheating. I hope you will take my situation into consideration. If this email is not appropriate for your organization, then please disregard it.
I really feel a lot of people commenting on this don't see the full badness of it. From a purely game theoretic standpoint, if word gets out that a laboriously crafted handwritten assignment might get one spuriously accused of plagiarism, college students are going to figure //might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb//.
False positives are going to have the perverse social effect of causing LLM usage for written assignments to absolutely skyrocket.
Really, the time value to overworked students of not having to research or write a paper while still getting credit for it is SO high, the temptation to cheat is already balanced on a knife edge. It takes very, very little to push it over. If doing your own authentic work is in some substantive sense no longer "safe", the risk of being caught plagiarizing starts looking not significantly different than the risk of *not* plagiarizing, at which point the reward takes over the mental calculation.
@siderea @timnitGebru "if you never get caught, you're spending too much effort"
