Student uses a faulty AI detector to avoid being expelled from college and manages to graduate and later become a professor: ‘It was my first allegation, to give me the benefit of the doubt, which they did.’

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Olivia Arocena • Writer and Editor
Jun 16, 2026 8:00 AM EDT

Is AI really helping us become better professionals, or is it making us lazier?

I know this is a trite question, but I think it's still relevant due to the kinds of things that won't stop happening all around us. I personally use AI for recipes, for help while navigating the internet, and sometimes even for advice. Truth is, I'm still a little afraid of it and try to keep its use controlled in the sense that I always use it to generate more questions around a topic and then go on my own to investigate the sources. At times, I even chose to do things 'the hard way' just to learn them and make them sink in, while I could have just told AI to do them for me. For example, I did that to learn correct quote usage, also to resume some texts, etc. For me, it's not that using AI is wrong; it's just that reading and writing and debating with oneself over how to resume a text is what makes your brain retain the knowledge. What we will read below is an example of what can happen in one's professional life with the use of AI, and we'll later reflect on how to best incorporate it in a way that doesn't contribute to our own cognitive decline.

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    An illustrative image of the teacher after he graduated with questionable knowledge

  • I used a faulty AI detector to avoid being expelled from college and am a teacher now.

    Back in 2024, I started using Al in the final year of my bachelors. I would upload both the assignment brief and the reading sources and ask it to extract all usable quotes.
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  • I would then prompt it to generate a outline and then generate the essay section by section, ensuring that the quotes and information was not hallucinated. I mostly used Gemini and extensively rewrote my essays.
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    A depiction of the now teacher trying to study for his exams

  • I used ChatGPT once and my assignment wasn't returned. I got an email from academic misconduct saying that I was being investigated for Al plagerism and that the penalty would be expulsion.
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  • My college had a zero tolerance academic dishonestly policy. Any proven allegation meant expulsion.
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  • To say it bluntly, the way the guy used AI was problematic. It wasn’t just helping with fact-checking some quotes or finding sources; it was downright rewriting everything. I struggle to think he might be a great teacher, judging by this, but all in all, he is probably just a mediocre one, and that’s far from terrible. If he continues to use AI like this to prepare his classes, his students might think the subject is boring or generic, and if the AI isn’t actively hallucinating, at least the information will be correct, and they’ll learn some things.

  • They sent me a turnitin report which outlined my essay as 100% Al written. I scrambled and found a faulty Al detector online that pegged my essay as being human written.
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  • I basically presented that rating as evidence and pleaded with them that since it was my first allegation, to give me the benefit of the doubt, which they did.
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  • I graduated and am now a teacher, all because of that faulty Al detector.
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    A picture of a robot depicting what the teachers might look like in the future

  • What concerns me the most is his own professional development, really, and with that, the development of all of us if we keep using AI for everything. How will we find genius again? Will it become something like ‘the best and most creative way of using LLMs’?

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