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I Ran My Own Writing Through a Detector. 38% AI Score. I’ve Been Teaching 12 Years.
Decided to test what these tools would say about my own writing. Ran the first three paragraphs of a unit handout I wrote entirely myself through GPTZero. 38% probability of AI generation.…
AI Detection and Special Ed Students – An Equity Issue Nobody’s Addressing
systemic failure. thats what this is. we talk about ESL students being falsely flagged at higher rates. we never talk about students with learning differences - specifically students with dyslexia, ADHD, autism…
What Happens When the Detector Is Wrong – A Real Story
Sharing this because I think it needs to be heard before more schools go down this road. In December we had a grade 11 student flagged by Turnitin for a history essay.…
Why I Stopped Using AI Detection as Evidence – A VP’s Perspective
After the parent-threatening-to-sue incident I described in an earlier thread, our department sat down and formally evaluated our detection-based process. Here's what we found and why we stopped. Three findings from our…
False positive nightmare, my top student got accused because of GPTZero
need to vent and also get advice. one of my strongest writers, a kid who has never once given me reason to doubt her, got flagged at 92% likely ai by gptzero…
Detection score dropped a full letter grade worth of trust with my class this week
flagged a students essay based on a detection score, brought her in to talk about it, and she showed me draft history proving she wrote every word herself. i apologized, obviously, but…
International students getting different detection results than domestic students
i've been keeping informal notes for my own sanity since january and i noticed something i cant explain away easily. across my three sections this semester, international students have been flagged by…
False positive on a grade 9 essay and the student is devastated
a grade 9 student in my class got flagged at 82% ai probability on an essay she clearly wrote herself, i know because i watched her write parts of it during class…