Daijiworld Media Network – Sydney

Sydney, Oct 10: Australian Catholic University (ACU) is facing severe criticism after wrongly accusing thousands of students of using artificial intelligence (AI) to cheat, relying on a controversial AI detection system.

In 2024, ACU registered nearly 6,000 cases of alleged academic misconduct across its nine campuses, with 90 per cent related to AI use. Students were notified at the end of the semester, leaving little time to respond, and were required to prove their innocence while the university relied on a single AI-generated report highlighting “problematic” text.

“It was already a stressful enough time of my life. And on top of that, I was getting emails from the academic misconduct board saying I needed to write out an explanation as to why I th

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