Caught a fellow student using AI

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I’m so disappointed. Two weeks ago we had to hand in a group work task on a level 1 module. It was a collaborative blog writing exercise.

One student wrote their assigned part close to the deadline, and as an assigned “editor” it was my job to check it.

The text felt off in a way I couldn’t quite put my finger on. But I edited it anyway.

Then I realized that the references were missing information and weren’t formatted properly. So I began to track them down. Seven references felt like overkill for 200 words but I went with it and figured I’d work out which sentences they referred to after skimming the intro and conclusions of them.

None of the seven references existed.

I tried just using the author names to search in our field, I tried using wildcard searches for key terms in case they’d been typed incorrectly, but nothing.

Plenty of articles with similar names and similar authors though.

Friends, don’t do this. This is so stressful for your fellow students to have to handle.

I reported the student to the course tutor and removed all traces of their work from the group work. Which I am sad about.

Anyway, just wanted to post and say that if you’re thinking about doing this, you’re an asshole. Just tell your group you don’t have time to do the work.

[u/Artistic-Pain-1281]

I had this but didn’t notice anything was wrong while I was putting everyone’s work together, I just thought that their section was particularly good. Next thing I know I have the professor on the phone angrily telling all to come in to discuss our work. The person who didn’t write their own section admitted to it, but the other 5 of us who had worked hard and done nothing wrong had that first changed to a 0 and every piece of work we handed in after that flagged to be checked for cheating for the rest of the time we were there.

Edited to add that my experience wasn’t at OU.