{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T06:57:29.120Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"denied","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":2,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":2,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":2,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":2},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-lund-university-student-who-denies-cheating-suspended-after-board-judges-fast-written-exam-answers-ai-made","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'hann skriva närmare 1 500 ord på bara sex minuter under en tenta i maj, rapporterar Sydsvenskan. Andra studenter satt i runt två timmar.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"During an exam in May the student submitted close to 1,500 words after six minutes, while other students sat for around two hours.","causal_attribution":"Sydsvenskan's account as relayed by Aftonbladet; the exam record was not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'En skrivhastighet på omkring 300 ord per minut är inte realistisk vid självständig produktion av sammanhängande, ämnesrelevanta och välformulerade tentamenssvar'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The teacher's report said a writing speed of around 300 words a minute is not realistic for independently produced, coherent exam answers.","causal_attribution":"The teacher's written report as quoted by Sydsvenskan through Aftonbladet."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Studenten nekar fusk. Hon uppger att hon hade tekniska problem och trodde att tentan inte skulle bedömas.'; 'Hon hävdar också att hon bara skrev 20–50 ord per fråga.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The student denies cheating, saying she had technical problems, believed the exam would not be assessed and wrote only 20 to 50 words per question.","causal_attribution":"The student's own explanation; contrary evidence to the board's judgment, not itself established."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Universitetets disciplinnämnd går på lärarens linje och bedömer att studenten använt AI. Straffet blir sex veckors avstängning från studierna.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The university's disciplinary board sided with the teacher, judged that the student had used AI and suspended her from her studies for six weeks.","causal_attribution":"The board's decision as reported; the decision was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"six-week suspension from studies after the board judged the exam text AI-made, which the student denies","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Ex6qz3/skane-student-i-lund-stangs-av-for-ai-fusk-efter-rekordsnabb-tenta","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"sv","translation_note":"Read in full in the original Swedish (HTML body and stripped text). Aftonbladet states that its text was produced with the help of AI and fact-checked and edited by its editor or reporter, and that it relays Sydsvenskan, whose own article could not be read (HTTP 403). Passages are quoted in Swedish; the English renderings are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"sydsvenskan-lund-ai-suspension-sep-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["unknown"],"contexts":["education"],"unknowns":["Whether the student used AI, and the year of the exam.","The date of the board's decision and whether she appealed.","What Sydsvenskan's full article adds; it could not be read."],"geography":{"basis":"The exam and the disciplinary decision took place at Lund University in Sweden, as the report states. The student's own country is not stated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["SE"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete sanction for alleged AI use that the student denies: a six-week suspension resting on the board's judgment that fast-written exam answers were AI-made. The facts rest on one chain, Sydsvenskan's report as relayed by Aftonbladet.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the university's response to suspected AI use: the disciplinary board judged from the teacher's report on the speed, length and quality of the exam answers that the student had used AI, and suspended her for six weeks. She denies it, and no AI output or tool is described, so the relation is recorded as unknown under the consequential-response exemption.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Lund University student who denies cheating is suspended for six weeks after the disciplinary board judges her fast-written exam answers AI-made, papers report","summary":"A student at Lund University wrote close to 1,500 words in six minutes during an exam in May, while other students took around two hours, according to Aftonbladet's relay, dated 28 September 2026, of a Sydsvenskan report. The teacher's report to the university said a writing speed of around 300 words a minute is not realistic for independently produced answers. The student denies cheating: she says she had technical problems, believed the exam would not be graded and wrote only 20 to 50 words per question. The university's disciplinary board sided with the teacher, judged that she had used AI and suspended her from her studies for six weeks. The report does not name an AI tool or describe any detection tool.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-28","aiSystem":"No AI system is identified. The disciplinary board judged from the teacher's report on writing speed and answer length and quality that the exam text must have been written with AI; the student denies using it","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI writing tool (suspected)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the reports, the student was suspended from her studies for six weeks after the disciplinary board judged, from the speed and quality of her written answers, that she had used AI, which she denies.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the suspended student. She denies AI use, so she is counted outside own use.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"SE","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Ex6qz3/skane-student-i-lund-stangs-av-for-ai-fusk-efter-rekordsnabb-tenta","primarySourceLabel":"Aftonbladet, 28 September 2026: Suspended for AI cheating after record-fast exam in Lund (relaying Sydsvenskan)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:15:44.447445+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:15:44.447445+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["academic-integrity","suspected-ai-use","student-suspension","university","sweden","denied"]},{"id":"2026-uh-downtown-student-f-grade-over-alleged-ai-generated-coursework-overturned-on-appeal","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'his Music Appreciation Professor gave him an \"F\" claiming, \"the student submitted several journal entries and discussion posts that were determined to be copy and pasted AI generated.\"'; 'A University of Houston-Downtown student who received an \"F\" after being accused of submitting AI-generated work'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A University of Houston-Downtown senior received an F in a music appreciation course after the professor claimed the student had submitted several journal entries and discussion posts determined to be AI-generated text that had been copied and pasted.","causal_attribution":"The station's report, quoting the professor's stated reason. How the determination was made is not stated."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The appeal process started with the professor who accused him in the first place'; 'Then he lost in the second phase with the department chair of the Arts and Communication Department.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The student's appeal was denied first by the professor and then by the chair of the Arts and Communication Department.","causal_attribution":"The station's report of the appeal stages."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'But the student discipline committee made up of four deans ruled in his favor.'; 'The committees decision was based on concerns regarding the reliability and consistency of the evidence used to support the original finding.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A student discipline committee made up of four deans ruled in the student's favour, and the decision as quoted cites concerns about the reliability and consistency of the evidence used to support the original finding.","causal_attribution":"The station's quotation of the decision. The decision document was not published."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'To be honest, I was shocked. I was incredibly incensed'; 'In other things, in the course, I received A's or either 100% or 90%, so it came as a jarring surprise to me.'; 'This came as a huge relief'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The student said they were shocked and incredibly incensed by the grade, which came as a surprise after high marks elsewhere in the course, and that the committee's ruling came as a huge relief.","causal_attribution":"Student's own statement to the station."}],"effects":[{"label":"failing course grade on a finding that journal entries and discussion posts were AI-generated; later overturned","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"two appeals denied before the committee ruling","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"shock and anger at the accusation (student statement)","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"committee of deans ruled in the student's favour","claim_id":"c3","direction":"positive"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.fox26houston.com/news/senior-uh-downtown-prevails-after-being-accused-handing-assignments-were-ai-generated","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English: the article text in full, including the summary box and the JSON-LD article body, as served on 23 October 2026 (unchanged since 2 October 2026). The video segment on the page was not viewed. The station says its reporter spoke with the student.","independence_group":"fox26-houston"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["unknown"],"contexts":["education"],"unknowns":["How the professor determined that the work was AI-generated, and whether an AI-detection tool was used.","The year of the grade: the report says 'last August' without a year.","The university's and the professor's accounts.","Whether the grade was changed after the committee's ruling and to what."],"geography":{"basis":"The course and the appeals were at the University of Houston-Downtown; the report is datelined Houston. The student's country of residence is not stated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete account of a student penalised on a finding of AI use that a university committee later overturned, reported by a local television station from the student's interview and a decision passage it quotes. The harm is the institution's sanction for alleged AI use. No AI system's role in the finding is established, and the record says so. The student is not named in this record.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the university's response to alleged AI use: the professor's finding, as quoted by the station, was that the student's journal entries and discussion posts were 'copy and pasted AI generated', and the F followed from it. The student contested the finding and a committee of deans ruled in the student's favour over the reliability and consistency of the evidence. The report does not state how the finding was reached or whether an AI-detection tool was used, so no AI system's output about the student is established and the relation is recorded as unknown.","status":"suspected"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"University of Houston-Downtown senior given an F over a professor's claim of AI-generated coursework; deans' committee overturns it after two failed appeals","summary":"FOX 26 Houston reported on 2 October 2026 that a senior at the University of Houston-Downtown received an F in a music appreciation course 'last August' after the professor claimed the student had submitted several journal entries and discussion posts 'determined to be copy and pasted AI generated'. The student appealed. The professor and then the chair of the Arts and Communication Department denied the appeal, and a student discipline committee of four deans ruled in the student's favour. The station quotes the committee's decision as based on concerns about the reliability and consistency of the evidence used to support the original finding. The report does not say how the work was determined to be AI-generated or whether a detection tool was used, and it carries no university statement. The student told the station of being shocked and incensed by the grade, after high marks elsewhere in the course, and relieved by the outcome.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-02","aiSystem":"No AI system is identified. The professor's finding was that the student's journal entries and discussion posts were AI-generated, which the student contested and a committee overturned; the report does not say whether an AI-detection tool produced or supported that finding","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI writing tool (suspected)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A student received a failing course grade on a professor's finding that coursework was AI-generated, lost two appeals and described shock and anger before a committee of deans ruled in the student's favour, citing concerns about the reliability and consistency of the evidence (FOX 26 Houston report based on the student's account and the quoted decision).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the student who received the failing grade and pursued the appeals. The student is counted under other people harmed because no use of AI by the student is established.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-TX","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.fox26houston.com/news/senior-uh-downtown-prevails-after-being-accused-handing-assignments-were-ai-generated","primarySourceLabel":"FOX 26 Houston, 2 October 2026: \"Senior at UH Downtown prevails after being accused of handing in assignments that were AI generated\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-05T03:19:52.006191+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T02:58:39.959626+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-use-accusation","academic-integrity","education","appeal-upheld","texas","ai-involvement-suspected"]}]}