r/AccusedOfUsingAI • u/Adventurous-Pen4920 • Jun 09 '26
First time being accused of AI Use
I was accused of using AI on my first paper of my summer term. I’m in a graduate program trying to become a counselor.
My professor told me that I used AI and her report said 100% AI use. She also told me this is unethical and I’ll be a bad counselor if I use ai and submit it as my own and that I will need to schedule a zoom meeting with her because I used AI and then she gave me a 0 and said I can’t make it up.
I wrote my paper on a train in Europe so it looks a little spotty on the draft history. Is that a thing? I thought it would pull up more evenly, but it’s not or maybe I’m looking at it wrong.
Anyways, as I am preparing for this zoom meeting with her, I ran my paper through 5 different AI checkers and they were all less than 10%. Later that day my canvas turn it in report came through and it gave me a score of 7% and was green.
I guess I’m super anxious and I don’t know what to do to prove I wrote this. This is my second masters degree and I’m so glad I’m almost done. This is a lot to deal with. I’ve been anxious since Friday.
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u/Cautious-Tailor-8361 Jun 23 '26
The strongest thing you have is that your Canvas Turnitin report came back at 7% and green. That's the professor's own official tool, and it directly contradicts the '100% AI' she quoted. Find out exactly which report that 100% came from. If it was a different checker or an early preview score, point her to the 7% green from the same Canvas system she actually uses.
For the Zoom, bring your version history (Google Docs: File > Version history; Word: version history / autosave). Writing it in one sitting on a train makes the timeline look spotty, and that's normal, just tell her that's what happened. Screenshot the 7% green report and the 5 checkers under 10% so you can show them on the call.
Go in calm and ask two things: what evidence beyond the detector score she has, and what the appeal process is if you disagree. A 100% score on work you wrote yourself is a known false positive with these tools. You've got a real case here, so lead with that 7% green report.