{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T14:21:40.548Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"texas","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":1},"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-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"]}]}