It was nearing the end of semester and results had just been released for final law assessments.
"Mary", a pseudonym to protect her identity as a student, sat at her computer, refreshing the browser, wondering why her grades would not load.
An email arrived. It was from the course coordinator about the widespread use of artificial intelligence, but Mary ignored it — she was a mature-aged student and AI was not in her wheelhouse.
The university, however, said otherwise.
Using AI detection software, Queensland University of Technology last week red-flagged Mary and many of her classmates' work as AI generated.
Now, with exams less than a month away, they are all staring down the barrel of academic misconduct.
"We're looking at the same piece of legislation, we're quoting the same cases, we're looking at the same issues," Mary told the ABC.
"And yet it's marked in red as not your original work."
Mary's story follows revelations that the Australian Catholic University accused thousands of students of AI-related academic misconduct, only to conclude months later that many had done nothing wrong.
The ABC can now reveal that ACU is just one part of a sector-wide problem.
At least a dozen Australian universities are using AI detection software to catch AI cheating, and they are making mistakes.
Across the country, university and TAFE students told the ABC their institutions were relying on the tools to put individuals and entire cohorts on notice for academic misconduct.
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