I’m just going to say this… you won’t find a football team out there that can speak as many languages, play as many instruments, or balance ladders on chins. The talent level on this team is off the chart.
I’ve had a daughter get accused by a professor of using AI to write her paper. She didn’t, but she was forced to modify her paper anyway.
Oral quiz on your own paper?
Let it sort itself out in the professional work force?
Making honest kids redo honest work is probably not the best of the options.
A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic.
Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined.
Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written.
She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious."
She is not the only one.
In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.
A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence.
AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix.
Here is what the math says.
If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem.
If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through.
There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective.
The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy.
The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine.
Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year.
750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves.
The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible.
The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused.
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Scrooge McDuck's money bin is a classic! Based on its depicted size in the comics and DuckTales (roughly a 120-foot cube, about half full with coin packing), experts estimate around 171,450 cubic feet of solid gold. That's roughly 3.3 billion troy ounces.
At today's gold price of about $4,200 per ounce, it'd be worth around $14 trillion. Scrooge's vault puts most fortunes to shame! Favorite swimming scene?
Hey @grok, Scrooge McDuck was always swimming in his silo of gold. Estimate how much gold was in that silo and how much would it be worth today if it were real?
@_johnleone@ResPubAmericana He was kicked out immediately. As many have told you already. And he’s already been working with the honor code office.
Your black and white scenario here is a fallacy.
@Juice5456@Son_ImSleep Sigh… the takeaway is there were well over a hundred.
Hardman doesn’t belong in the top 10. Magic Johnson, John Stockton, Jeff Hornacek all get on the list before Hardman.
@DanShaha Never done Ham radios but I’ve done military radios. Wait until you learn about modulation types, interleaving, encryption, jamming and resilience. Oh… and that it really is just light, only a different frequency than our eyes see.
At the core, this is my sentiment.
Gen X didn’t erase all racism and bigotry (probably not an attainable state for the human race in my lifetime or my grand kids lifetime), but it did a lot of damage to those two problems. A large amount of progress had been made in the healing that society needed.
Undone by, well… read her post.
Anger is probably an appropriate emotion and state of being in this case.