{"id":733989,"date":"2026-08-10T23:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733989\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:56:16","slug":"i-was-accused-of-using-ai-in-my-dissertation-but-i-wrote-it-all-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733989\/","title":{"rendered":"I was accused of using AI in my dissertation but I wrote it all myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a result of the marker&#8217;s concerns, Harrison was given a date to attend a virtual hearing with a panel from the university&#8217;s school of medicine to defend his case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says he prepared well to provide the evidence and defend his case but, on the day, the link to the virtual hearing did not arrive on time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After emailing the university, he received the link five minutes after the start time for the hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At this point, I&#8217;m extremely nervous about it because I&#8217;m thinking this is my one chance to prove myself, to redeem myself &#8211; and they&#8217;re going to think that I&#8217;m just not showing up,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the half-hour hearing the student was asked to define the medical terms he used in his dissertation, which Harrison says was a surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was so shook up about my start to the hearing,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I represented myself completely well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A week later, he received the decision that the allegations of AI usage had been upheld. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This meant his mark would be capped at seven, just enough to pass, and that the decision would be reflected on his professional record with the General Medical Council (GMC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a result of the marker&#8217;s concerns, Harrison was given a date to attend a virtual hearing with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}