By Julia Bergin
Publication Date: 2025-12-21 20:58:00
The clock struck three and the school bell rang – it was home time for the Davidson High School students, but not for Gabe Jones.
He said he sat alone in a classroom, stressed and overwhelmed, while his teachers bombarded him with questions about the authenticity of his Grade 12 assessment.
An AI detection tool had incorrectly identified Gabe’s work as AI-generated and for the second time in five days, the 18-year-old was taken out of class and detained after school to prove he was not an impostor.
“It felt like an interrogation,” he told the ABC.
“As if I were a criminal in court and had to prove that I was a good guy.“
Gabe said his teachers wanted evidence — a sentence-by-sentence breakdown of his 3,000-word assignment — to show where the information came from.
“I was sitting there with no instructions, trying to figure out where to find all this stuff,” he said.
“I remember my teacher once saying, ‘It’s okay, it’s fine, we know you didn’t do it, but you have to prove it… It’s just a…
