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The Great AI Detection Scandal: How Unreliable Tools Are Ruining Students' Lives

In October 2025, Australian Catholic University admitted something horrifying: their AI detection software had falsely accused approximately 6,000 students of cheating. These weren't students who'd used ChatGPT to write their essays. Nope—these were students who'd written every word themselves, hunched over keyboards in libraries and dorm rooms, actually doing the …