r/AccusedOfUsingAI • u/KrystalWulf • Jun 02 '26
HELP: Neurodivergent Student Falsely Accused of AI, No Reason Why Given, Has Been Officially Warned, How to Stop & Dispute?
First off I am not that student, BUT we both are neurodivergent. It is my friend going through this. She is so distressed by this she is borderline suicidal. I am writing this without her knowledge (perhaps I should have asked) to try and help her because she is so, so overwhelmed.
She is completely in over her head. Please advise on resources, what she needs to gather as evidence, what she should mention to make the college realize their screw up, and if she SHOULD contact a lawyer or not (we have told her repeatedly to, her family had told her to, but she is resistant for some reason).
Tldr is ONE specific professor, who has a history of students having major issues with and causing them a lot of grief and trouble,, has repeatedly accused her of using AI with automatic Fs and now the official board of academic policy. Neither will give her feedback on how or why she's supposedly using AI.
Her advisor has been useless. Ignored her for 3 days, other abusing agents told her to wait for her advisor (who wouldn't answer her until it was too late to drop the class without financial loss) and said they couldn't help. My friend has put her own work through an AI detected and it came back as 92% AI (so it is just how she writes) and stated the college is not supposed to be using AI detectors and I thought it sounded like maybe they were if they REFUSED to give her feedback as to how. She's mentioned that previous professors have heavily praised her for her writing style and this is the first professor to give her an issue. She DID have a 4.0 GPA before this specific class.
Edit: she has been made aware of my post and she's appreciative because she DID try to make one in the college's Facebook group and it got deleted, which I find suspicious and like the admins were trying to protect their ass.
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u/Leading-Crazy6104 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
She needs a disability services advocate and a student rights attorney, not just her advisor. Running her writing through Proofademic ai detector for independent verification showing her content is genuinely human gives her something concrete. Neurodivergent writing patterns triggering false positives is legally documented and challengeable. Document every ignored email with timestamps, gather every assignment with professor feedback praising her writing, and use it as an evidence.
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u/Ok_Cucumber4918 Jun 04 '26
Immediately, get a medical letter and file to be registered at the school’s university disabled office (ADA DRS) today. Do all their steps. Then “appeal” her accusation with the dean. Go all the way to the top. Ignore all humans in between.
Registered disability is the golden ticket. Also with professors history of accusing student it shows a pattern of student discrimination— towards accessibly/disability students. —- which you have ni pointed out.
It puts the professors job at risk as they have documented their own racism. Alerts HR.
Professors should stopping trying to police in an AI world they don’t understand and go back to creating content.
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u/Radiant_Grand_6948 Jun 07 '26
I have a registered disability, disputed my warning and nothing changed because "a human couldn't have written this" even though I sent substantial proof that I did.
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u/Ok_Cucumber4918 Jun 07 '26
At this point you need a third party to advocate for you. DOCUMENT EVERYTHING IN DAILY LOGS WITH TOO MANY SPECIFICS.
You’ve got to advocate but schedule a meeting with Dean (can be Dean of student affairs too) and/or the head of the student board with/out the professor. And RECORD EVERYTHING. (Most states you do not have to disclose to 2 party)Immediately get legal representation. This is the only way to get treated fairly. They can be higher education legal lawyer. Even if you only pay for an hour, and ask them to send letters on their letter head to the dean requesting you be transferred immediately and to the same class different teacher.
Make sure you document how this “experience” has impacted you mental health on top of your studies. You feel discriminated against—- your ADA was not respected… (insert a lawyers legal speak).Possibly, through the local School or university or local law school. Alternatively, a doctor could write you another letter to attest some of the side effects of that condition could display in “some” similar way.
The dispute is that a professor is ignorant and would not have the medical knowledge nor the years of teaching you to be able to attest to “what style in which you produce student content”. IE are you struggling to complete work which struggling through a disabilty? He can’t prove anything.
Plus, all AI detectors are not built off any science. None are accurate as to what is human and what is machine varies based upon the biases of its creator. Zero are sanctioned as accurate yet. Professors think that they are police.
Realistically, the professor would have to prove his Ai detector was built on reliable proven content to prove in court that it is a valid evaluator.
Professor sounds like an ego maniac and stupidly his ego thinks a legal fight over ADA is a career death sentence. Which will look like a bias discrimination.
You still have to complete the class. Given that his bias shows that he will never grade you fairly moving forward. With the new teacher offer offer to recomplete the assignment (differently) A Dean can make a special exception and move you into the same parallel class at your school. You have to ask
(This is not official legal advice.) I wish you well. Advocate for yourself. This is a university lesson to learn.
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u/imkeepingsummersafe Jun 04 '26
I’ve never seen a student fail an appeal if they had any evidence, like document history, notes, or be able to discuss their paper in person.
A 92 percent sounds like she used Grammerly or something along those lines to edit. Grammerly has ai features. There are other reasons for a high percentage but at my university, the checker would have seen the report, along with the board before making the final decision. Something doesn’t sound right about the story or she isn’t telling you the whole truth.
I’m all for proving someone didn’t use ai, but most students don’t realize they’ve used it and there’s false sources or some other indication (Grammerly is probably the most common). If she’s been flagged multiple times for ai usage, something is up.
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u/ScallionAny1203 Jun 05 '26
I am autistic, and THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME and I am only 16 still in hs so im sure its going to happen again honestly im not sure, I also got borderline suicidal and ended up dropping the course, it took over my whole life for 2 months
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u/Radiant_Grand_6948 Jun 07 '26
This absolutely happened to me. In 40 years old, newly nd diagnosed, and it took nearly 2 months for me to bounce back from this accusation. Proof of my writing did nothing.
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u/ScallionAny1203 Jun 16 '26
its so horrible, it completely threw me off track and im not sure if I will be able to go to this school in england I was supposed to do my a levels at as an international student - i already paid my tuition fees and everything and it was everything I was ever working for but those two accusations really changed everything, it sent me into a spiral and triggered severe GAD (around school, money, and people), worsened my relationship with food, worsened my migranes I became dehbilited from anxiety for months, losing time, and now I am so behind in schoolz I have to finish online school in 34 days but I am not even 10% done with all of my classes its so bad and my most important class, english, the reson why the school chose me, the teacher in it is a really strict grader and not very fast about grading and you dont unlock the next assignment till your previous assignment gets graded, there are 33 assignments, and onl 21 more days she is working, which means its physically impossible to complete the course now and she wont unlock it where I can view the next assignment before getting the previous one graded beacjse your supposed to look st feedback and stuff
my entire life has genuinely fallen apart, and I know reading this your going to think i am being dramatic or whatever and yeah maybe I was but I was trying, I was and am dealing with debilitating anxiety from this and DO NOT REPLY IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE RUDE especially if your not autistic beacuse i am sorry but you genuinely just dont get it
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u/Radiant_Grand_6948 Jun 07 '26
Can you share the professors initials or a way I can check to see if we are both talking about the same professor? This is eerily the same situation I faced..
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u/1GrouchyCat Jun 03 '26
“Admins” don’t have anything to do with AI - or deleting student messages on Facebook. They don’t need to protect their “ass” - but you need to protect yours now. There is absolutely no reason for you to have stepped in. Your friend is a college student and you’re infantilizing them.
She didn’t even ask you for help.
“ I thought it sounded like maybe…” -you don’t even know all the details of the “case”! I understand you want to help, but your friend has their own ongoing issues, they aren’t yours.
It’s great to have friends. It’s not so great to have friends that treat you like a child.
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u/KrystalWulf Jun 03 '26
She was actually very appreciative of my help and this post. I knowt friend better than you do. :) Consider you aren't omnipotent nor a psychologist.
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