AI paper

[Anonymous]

My child’s school is claiming that they used AI to write a paper. I helped my child write this paper and know that there was no AI used, so this is very frustrating to me.
Is this a new trend where if a paper is well written then the teacher will claim it’s AI generated?

[Anonymous]

Maybe you helped too much? Why not just let them write it?

[Anonymous]

Maybe AI here is "Adult Interference"

[Anonymous]

Sorry, I should have known better than to post and expect helpful answers..... by "helped" I meant that I was there while he was writing it, not that I wrote it for him. I also edited it and had him go back and fix things. I did not interfere or write the paper for him.
This feels like a lose-lose. If I don't sit with him/edit his papers, he turns in crap and gets told to do better (but all while never being taught how to write a paper), if I guide him on how to write a paper then it gets accused of being AI generated.

[Anonymous]

Maybe have a meeting w the teachers and let them know you assisted.

[Anonymous]

I don't know. The AI detectors have gotten really good lately.

[Anonymous]

Teacher run it through an ai checker. We had that least year. We ran it through other ones and it said no. Big fight with the teacher who removed the entire assignment as spouse is an it with access to higher level ai. I was sitting with the kid the entire time they wrote it as it was a longer assignment they never did before and proofed it as did the tutor who wrote a letter saying they proof read it and made suggestions. It’s horrible. As more papers are run through ai, the more will get flagged. Teachers don’t know how to use ai so if it’s flagged over 30-40% kids are accused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I should have known better than to post and expect helpful answers..... by "helped" I meant that I was there while he was writing it, not that I wrote it for him. I also edited it and had him go back and fix things. I did not interfere or write the paper for him.
This feels like a lose-lose. If I don't sit with him/edit his papers, he turns in crap and gets told to do better (but all while never being taught how to write a paper), if I guide him on how to write a paper then it gets accused of being AI generated.

What do you want from us? Communicate with the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Did the kid do it in a Google doc? That should pull up the entire history (any copy and paste, previous versions and edits, etc).
I would show any outlines the kid made, notes, etc.

[Anonymous]

No just on a regular word doc bc we have to turn it in to turn it in.com and it won’t upload from a google doc. He does have a handwritten outline that he took everything from that he turned into the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No just on a regular word doc bc we have to turn it in to turn it in.com and it won’t upload from a google doc. He does have a handwritten outline that he took everything from that he turned into the teacher.

We? How old is this kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I should have known better than to post and expect helpful answers..... by "helped" I meant that I was there while he was writing it, not that I wrote it for him. I also edited it and had him go back and fix things. I did not interfere or write the paper for him.
This feels like a lose-lose. If I don't sit with him/edit his papers, he turns in crap and gets told to do better (but all while never being taught how to write a paper), if I guide him on how to write a paper then it gets accused of being AI generated.

I don’t think you are justified in being snarky. Unless you are brand new to this website, you know that if you say you helped your child write the paper, people are going to assume you helped your child write the substance of the paper. And both of those posters made the point that maybe you were too involved, which caused the AI flag.

From now on, have your child do assignments in a Google document. Then you can cut and paste it into a word document to upload to the AI check website. Teachers are in a bind because plenty of kids cheat. At the same time, good writers are flagged falsely for using AI when they didn’t. My own kid was recently flagged for 100% AI for an essay where part of the essay was big block quotes from a speech she was analyzing. I don’t envy teachers, and I feel bad for good students. And your case, I would talk to the teacher and explain to her that you were there when your child was writing the essay. The teacher will know, however, that your child either got AI help or help from you, so you will have to figure out how to phrase it in your conversation with them.

[Anonymous]

At our school parents are encouraged to edit and provide feedback so I would think that would always make for a paper that sparks AI content

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our school parents are encouraged to edit and provide feedback so I would think that would always make for a paper that sparks AI content

This is great but absolutely insane that this work would then be graded and that grade sent off to college admissions.

Mom isn't going to college with the kidm

[Anonymous]

Do you know how many resources they have at college? Writing labs, internet, friends to edit, etc.
Everything is edited these days - do you think parents don’t read college essays and edit them? Or that those kids don’t have writing coaches? This all goes directly to the college.
What about the public schools who inflate grades and allow for retakes? Come on, a parents giving feedback is not the problem here.