One of the students, whose appeal request was rejected, has raised issues with the university’s lack of clarity in regulating AI misuse.
(26 Jun 2025) Nanyang Technological University (NTU) will convene an appeal review panel that will include artificial intelligence experts following accusations that a student committed academic fraud by using generative AI tools.
A spokesperson from the university said on Thursday (Jun 26) that the school met two out of the three students who were accused of academic misconduct for face-to-face consultations this week. The objective of the consultation was to assess the grounds for appeal, and no conclusions were made.
One student’s appeal was processed following the consultation, while the other student’s was rejected, the spokesperson said.
The student whose appeal was processed had uploaded a post on Reddit last Thursday, detailing her account of being accused of misusing generative AI by her instructor, Assistant Professor Sabrina Luk.
After submitting an essay for a module on health, disease outbreaks and politics at the School of Social Sciences in April, she received an email from Asst Prof Luk questioning whether she had used AI tools in her assignment.
In response, the student provided a time-lapse video of her writing process, recorded using the Google Chrome extension Draftback to prove that she had written the essay.
However, as she had alphabetized her citations on Study Crumb, an AI-powered essay writing site, she was told that she had committed academic fraud. She received a zero for the assignment, which had a weightage of 45 per cent, and received a “D” grade.
CNA has the news here.
