Teachers and academics: what to do when you are accused of using AI

A student or colleague believes written feedback, a reference, or a paper was generated.

What is at stake

Professional standing, and in a research context, publication integrity.

Your evidence position

Your own history: previous similar documents, marking notes, the timetable of when you wrote it. Research adds a lab notebook, data and co-author correspondence.

Do this first

Answer the specific document, not the general suspicion. Show the trail for the piece in question.

The trap

Applying a detector to your own work to prove innocence. You would be adopting the standard you are disputing.

Related pages that will help

Teachers and academic disputes usually turn on the same few things: what a detector actually claims about its own accuracy, which pieces of evidence survive scrutiny, and whether a contract put the risk on you. The pages below cover each.