Eleanor Canina is as harsh a critic of AI as a 15-year-old can be, so she was surprised when an English teacher failed her for allegedly using AI to complete a writing assignment.
Canina and her mother, Stacy De Coster, are waging a battle to clear her name and to protect other students from being falsely accused of using AI. The duo say Wake County teachers shouldn’t be relying on AI detectors that have been known to inaccurately say that work was AI-generated.
“We can’t just let people get away with using AI for their assignments,” Canina, 15, a freshman at Green Hope High School in Cary, said in an interview with The News & Observer. “But honestly, I think that the top priority has to be stopping people from being falsely accused.”…