Many universities in the US use artificial intelligence (AI) testing applications to prevent students from using AI to write essays. However, there are many cases where the testing tools are incorrect, causing students to receive zero points.
In a specific case, Moira Olmsted (24 years old), a student at Central Methodist University (USA), told the story of receiving a score of 0 after the AI testing application assessed her essay as "AI-generated writing", according to Bloomberg news agency.
AI testing application “misunderstanding” rate from 1% to more than 10%
The professor said that the AI-testing app had previously flagged her writing. Olmsted disputed the finding, saying her writing was “engineered” because she has autism spectrum disorder, not because the writing was generated by AI. The school later overturned her score and passed the course.
In another case, Ken Sahib, an American student who grew up in Italy, said he was shocked when his paper received a zero in a computer networking course at Berkeley College in New York City (USA).
“Every tool I tried gave me the same result: AI generated this essay,” the professor explained. However, Sahib claimed that he had spent his teenage years studying in Italy, where English was only a second language and his writing would not be as natural as a native speaker, and that the AI test app gave him an incorrect assessment. After the student protested, the school changed the essay’s grade.
About two-thirds of more than 450 teachers surveyed in the United States said they regularly use AI-checking apps, according to a March report by the Center for Democracy and Technology. Educators say these tools help them determine whether AI has generated sentences, paragraphs, or entire student papers.
A series of tools such as Turnitin, GPTZero and Copyleaks are being used in many high schools and universities in the US.
Tech companies claim that AI testing apps are up to 99% accurate. However, Bloomberg conducted a test with 500 essays before ChatGPT launched in late 2022. The results showed that the rate of AI testing apps “mistaking” student-written essays for “AI-generated essays” ranged from 1% to more than 10%.
With this error rate, considering the large number of papers that need to be checked each year, this greatly affects the psychology of students, even creating unnecessary suspicion and tension between lecturers and students.
Specifically, after being flagged for an "AI-generated article", female student Moira Olmsted was so sensitive that she used the video recording function of her entire computer screen while writing her essay to prove it to the school.
Many students in the US say they now spend more time writing essays because they have to carefully check sentences that are at risk of being labeled “AI writing” by the checking tool.
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A 2023 study from Stanford University found that an AI testing app was “nearly perfect” at testing the essays of American-born eighth graders. However, the app incorrectly labeled half of the essays from students whose second language was English as “AI writing.”
Don't use AI testing apps as 'judges'
Faced with this situation, some schools in the US provide students with AI checking tools to self-check their writing before submitting it.
In addition, technology companies emphasize that schools should only view AI testing apps as support tools, not as “judges” to pass judgment on students' essays.
Some students who want to save time are even forced to use “AI humanizer” tools - which can automatically edit human writing or rewrite it to pass AI testing applications.
For some educators and students, schools and lecturers abusing AI testing applications will affect the teaching and learning process.
“AI is going to be a part of the future whether we like it or not,” notes Adam Lloyd, an English professor at the University of Maryland. “It’s a mistake to see AI as something we need to eliminate from the classroom or discourage students from using.” Instead of using AI testing apps, Lloyd relies on his intuition. “I know my students’ writing abilities well. If I have any doubts, I discuss them openly and don’t rush to accuse students of using AI to write their papers,” Lloyd says.
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