College students are being wrongly accused of using AI to cheat on their assignments by their university — based, in a headache-inducing twist, on the findings of another AI system.
That’s according to new reporting from Australia’s ABC News which illustrates the nightmarish impact that AI’s inroads has had in education as it irreversibly erodes the trust between professors and pupils.
A student named Madeleine told the outlet that when she was in the middle of her final-year university nursing placement and applying for graduate jobs, she received an email from Australian Catholic University titled “Academic Integrity Concern,” which accused of her using AI to cheat an assignment.
“And on top of that, I was getting emails from the academic misconduct board saying I needed to write out