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University Student Reportedly Received Zero After Turnitin AI Detector Flagged Essay
- Occurred
- Jul 24, 2023
- Published
- Jul 24, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
An anonymized university student said Turnitin’s AI detector flagged 67% of an essay as AI-generated, despite the student claiming to have written the assignment by hand. The student reportedly received a zero and said attempts to appeal to the professor, department head, and Turnitin support had not resolved the accusation.
Developers
- Turnitin
Deployers
- Unspecified university
Harmed parties
- University students
- Students
- Educational communities
- Anonymous student
Tags
- Educational AI
- Plagiarism detector
- False positive
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: False accusation due to unreliable AI detection tool causing unfair academic penalty.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8