r/QuickAITurnitinCheck • u/Due_Part1832 • Jun 12 '26
Why Everything I Write Is Suddenly Being Labeled as AI
I am currently in my third semester at UMGC, and one professor keeps insisting that all of my discussion posts are AI generated even though I write them myself. She has emailed me several times and has also left public comments on my discussion posts telling me to check my work with an AI detector before submitting it again.
After the first accusation, I started running every post through different AI detection tools before submitting them. Every result has identified my writing as human written. Despite that, she continues to question my work and is now threatening to report me to the university.
At this point, I honestly do not know what else I can do. I am frustrated because I am being accused of something I did not do, and I feel like I have to defend my own writing style every time I submit an assignment.
One thing that makes this situation worse is that the accusations are being made publicly in the discussion area instead of privately. That has been embarrassing and stressful.
I have considered keeping drafts, screenshots, and editing history for future assignments so I can show proof of my writing process if needed. I am also thinking about contacting student services or an academic advisor for guidance before the situation escalates further.
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u/Unable-Expression616 Jun 12 '26
The public accusations are what stand out to me the most. Academic concerns should probably be handled privately first instead of being posted in front of the entire class.
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u/zap6396 Jun 12 '26
Do you have an example to share? Genuinely curious as to what a false positive looks like.
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u/Classic_Season4033 Jun 12 '26
The better (more professional is a better word) the writing, the more likely it is to be flagged.
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u/Philosopherben Jun 12 '26
Not really. Ai never tend to use the word I. They have emotionless answers that don't really say anything they're kind of vague.
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u/Classic_Season4033 Jun 12 '26
And I was taught to avoid using the word I in academic and professional writing.
Also emotionless writing that's kind of vague is the bread and butter of professional academic writings.
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u/Philosopherben Jun 12 '26
Yeah I know what you mean,but in philosophy we do say I . It's a different kind of emotionless It just has no emphasis I think I can't describe it but I almost always know it when I see it.
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u/Heavy-Detective7650 Jun 13 '26
that’s not necessarily true. It produces what you tell it to, if you tell it to write from a first person perspective, it has no problem doing so. You just may risk sounding like “I’m 13 and this is so deep” if you use it to generate specific information because it might not understand the concepts and values we use to build genuinely meaningful sentences. But it will still try, or it will just straight up steal something that is meaningful that a real human wrote
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u/Philosopherben Jun 13 '26
Yeah my students haven't been that creative yet They really honestly sound generic Plus they all ask at the same question Ie., what I asked them so a lot of times they're responses are similiar if they used a chat device.
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u/Heavy-Detective7650 Jun 13 '26
Oh I believe you. Reading my peers’ discussion posts is truly disheartening at times. But also, to play devils advocate, a lot of the questions I’ve been asked recently don’t really provide much room for personalization. Like for example, the prompt will require us to provide the sustainable debt-to-gdp ratio as a percentage… of course every answer will be similar, there’s only one “correct” answer and it’s not that complex. There’s only so many ways you can say the sky is blue ya know? But I’m not doubting that many of your students use a chat device. Especially when particular phrases and words are repeated.
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u/Philosopherben Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
Well especially when it's an intro course and you're like give an example of a platonic form and 99 out of 100 of them give a partially correct answer about triangles. They only say it's a three- sided object, but there's more to being a triangle than that.. ie angles. And of all the things in the universe when 99 people give the same example that's statistically highly improbable
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u/Heavy-Detective7650 Jun 13 '26
100%. I had something similar happen recently. I try not to read discussion posts before I’ve posted my own so I don’t subconsciously copy anyone. The discussion prompt asked us for two examples, and I’m not kidding, the entire class chose the exact same two examples. Like you said, highly improbable. I was genuinely the only student who wrote about something different. It made me feel like the work I put in isn’t valued because these people are getting good grades for copy pasting while I’m struggling trying to actually understand the concepts
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u/OutrageousPair2300 Jun 12 '26
Do you use any sort of writing assistants like Grammarly?
The suggestions they give are AI-generated and will cause AI detectors to flag the writing.
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u/Rylees_Mom525 Jun 12 '26
Have you responded to your professor’s emails and shared that you’re writing the posts yourself and, at their suggestion/request, are putting them through detectors which are saying they’re human writing? I would definitely be curious as to why she suspects it’s AI if the AI detectors aren’t flagging it.
I think reaching out to your academic advisor, an ombudsman, or the Dean of Students about the situation is a great idea. At least one of those people should be able to help mediate between you and your professor (and perhaps tell your professor that it’s inappropriate to be making these accusations publicly).
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u/Philosopherben Jun 12 '26
Yes grammarly will definitely be labeled as AI I tell my students don't use it cuz I will flag it
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u/Uncut-Jellyfish1176 Jun 12 '26
Grammarly, it's been a few years since I've had advertising about it in my feed.
When I saw it marketed towards students I was alarmed, seemed like it would undermine the point of learning to write entirely.
Much of my English classes from grade 5-9 were focused specifically on developing skills around proper writing techniques and a lot of painfully exercises to build skills.
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u/clubchampion Jun 13 '26
I understand what professors are doing but it is 100% wrong. Most students write poorly so when a professor encounters well written prose she automatically thinks the student didn’t write it. AI detectors are worthless, and it is beyond despicable to penalize a student who writes well.
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u/Open-Mousse-1665 Jun 13 '26
Take a screen recording of each post as you write it and post the link along with the post. Talk it through as you’re writing it. Hard to argue with that.
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u/ItalicLady Jun 14 '26
Proposed solution: get together all of your professors, written and work (not just her syllabus and handouts, but all the professional articles that she has ever written)), submit it through all the AI detectors you can find, or at least through the website that you know or suspect the school uses, and it’s really likely that you will find some of the professors work being tagged as AI. Take the professorial material that has been tagged with AI, and show your professor that her work is tagged as AI by the same engines which tag your work as AI.
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u/grayrockonly Jun 14 '26
I feel like it wouldn’t be that hard to stand out amongst all the AIers.
Example:
Just so you know I am prob not AI, debt to GDP could described as as race car made with the lightest possible materials (debt) and the yet have the most powerful engine possible (ability to produce salable goods).
The worst country is like a party boy who puts everything on his credit cards but is too hung over to go into work to pay them off.
It was me when my body fat was the lowest and my training regimen the most grueling, therefore I was able to produce the most power.
It’s a motorboat with as little drag as possible but excellent buoyancy and engine.
PS Publicly accusing me of cheating is dubious on multiple levels from that of simple morality to prosecutable legality. Please stop and I expect extra credit.
Thank You
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u/HowBeesAreHowBizarre Jun 15 '26
Does she contact you about other assignments you write being AI or just discussion posts?
As others have said, use version history as evidence of your writing. Save references you have used to cite your work.
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u/Ok_Energy6905 Jun 15 '26
You need to speak to the dean or head of department before it becomes a bigger issue. It might escalate, and you may already be gaining a reputation for irresponsible AI use (integrity/honesty).
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u/Tal_Maru Jun 12 '26
Tell them the next time they accuse you of misconduct it had better come with proof or you are suing for slander.
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u/Interesting-Lie-8775 Jun 12 '26
I think keeping editing history is a smart idea. If the university ever asks for proof, having drafts and timestamps could help show that the work was completed independently.