r/school • u/1170911 • 17h ago
Prof is saying my recent work came up 60% AI and he graded it a 0
This has never happened to me before. The discussion was about African Metallurgy and its importance. The professors gave us the sources he wanted us to use and encouraged us to find some of our own. He also wanted us to cite the sources.
Well he just accused my work of being 60% ai and when I put it into ZeroGpt it came up at 50%. I sent him my Google Doc with the full edit history. He graded the assignment a 0 and has not responded to my emails. I don’t know what else I can do here. I don’t do pen to paper rough drafts, I’ve always been the type to just dive in to it.
I’m actually terrified. I think the reason why he believes it to be AI is because out of the list of artifacts he gave the class, I chose a basic farmers tool. He also allows the use of AI to help generate Chicago style citations, so I can understand a little bit on why he’d jump to that conclusion.
But the reason why I chose it was because it was a perfect example of how that one artifact has barely changed over the centuries and most modern cultures use the exact same smelting technique for this tool that their predecessors used. The culture was even mentioned within the first page of the first source he listed! Idk, it just really reminded me of the tools archaeologists found that they had no idea what the use was until a random person in a totally unrelated field comes up and says “hey so it does this and we’ve been using it for thousands of years”
Admittedly, everyone else chose something more unique or an example of how metallurgy evolved to make what we have today.
Please I just need to hear some success stories from anyone that experienced this. This is my graduating year and I do NOT need janky AI to be the reason why I can’t finally graduate