A PhD candidate used Grammarly's AI rewriting feature to polish her dissertation, not realizing how substantially the tool had altered her voice and phrasing. Her committee ran it through AI detection software, which flagged large sections. Despite her appeals, the university's AI writing policy was applied strictly and she was failed. The case sparked university policy debates across the US and UK about what counts as "AI assistance."
Weirdness Classification
8/10 — Significantly weird
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